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TIL Paul Verhoeven was the first person to accept Razzie award in ceremony. He gave speech about driven out of his country for being "sick and perverted and disgusting".

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kJd07 TIL that Orson Welles, Noam Chomsky, and Ayn Rand all recorded (rather moribund) Christmas specials.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
rRPPw TIL lactose tolerance is a genetic mutation where a cytosine (C) nucleotide in a person's DNA is replaced with a thymine (T) nucleotide allows them to digest milk, not the other way around.
Z8Moo TIL a woman in china lured a 6 year old boy into a field to completely remove his eyes via gouging with an unknown implement.Police suspected cornea harvesting but this was quickly ruled out when the eyes were discovered at the scene, albeit no longer attached to his body, completely intact.
78M6r TIL Jason Statham was a professional diver and even tried to go to the Olympics