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TIL Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for portraying Hannibal Lecter in Silence of Lambs, with only 16 mins of screen time (14% of the films length).

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KOO5R And without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does?
LxLr TIL that on 1/8/15, some of the strongest jet-stream aloft winds ever were reported (200+ knots). Nearly one hour was cut off from transatlantic flights from NYC to London.
gmvX TIL It’s illegal to own pet hamsters in Hawaii.
pjyQ TIL the Allies calculated the number of tanks being manufactured by Germans during WW2 by using the serial number of captured/destroyed tanks and statistics. The statical and actual figure differed by a value of 1.
QYWL TIL of Walead Beshty, an artist who makes fragile glass and copper boxes and ships them to art galleries unprotected