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R5k86 TIL In the history of the Catholic Church there has been over a decade without a Pope on the throne. The longest continuous time the throne was empty was two years ten months from 1268 to 1271.
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XED1r TIL that George C. Scott refused the Academy Award for his portrayal of George Patton on philosophical grounds. His reasoning was that dramatic performances were so unique that to compare them to each other was impossible.
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j6kwM TIL one of the first video games ever created Tennis for Two was made with an oscilloscope (a device for visualizing waveforms) in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham. Players used a custom one knob, one button controller to try to hit a ball over a net.