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TIL Danny DeVito was nominated for both the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his role as The Penguin in Batman Returns.

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yBdM TIL in 1917, WWI U.S. troops in Paris stopped at the grave (composed of soil from the U.S.) of French Revolutionary War Hero, Marquis de Lafayette, and proclaimed “Lafayette, we are here!”
vAYx TIL Cadbury won a 1909 libel suit against a publication for mentioning their delay in ceasing cacao purchase from countries with slave labor. The jury awarded one-fourth of a penny.
4P96 TIL forensic scientists have said that around 80% of all British banknotes contain traces of drugs. A 1999 study found even higher levels of contamination in the London area; of 500 notes tested, only four had no traces of cocaine.
b91Rp TIL there is no Queen of England. The sovereign nation called England came to an end in 1707 following union with Scotland.
wpKW TIL: if the United States would invest just $18 billion in education, college tuition would be cut in more than half