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TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only actor/actress to win the Best Actor/Actress Oscar four times.

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b6JdE TIL that Thailand operates the world’s smallest aircraft carrier. It carries a handful of helicopters, many of which have been reported as broken; and it mostly sits in dock except for one training day per month. It has been derided as the world’s priciest royal yacht.
m54Y TIL firefighters used to dip their beards in water and breathe through the wet hairs clenched between their teeth before breathing apparatuses were invented.
GeN4 TIL that Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave – and then escaping in the guards uniform.