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TIL that Morgan Freeman has been nominated for and won more awards than the total number of movies he’s starred in.

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OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
nJJB TIL that no Pope has recognized St. Patrick as a Saint
8ay1Z TIL when Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by clubs and TV because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered to come to a nightclub every night and sit in the front row if they let Ella sing.
M818 TIL the “TTC Sleeper”, a Toronto transit employee who was caught sleeping on the job and was mocked in countless memes, died 10 months later due to health issues that caused him to fall asleep on the job.
KBj4 TIL the NY Times has a test that was able to figure out the town I’m from after just 25 questions about word choices. “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk”