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TIL Only once in Oscar history have two performers won an Oscar for playing the same character.Brando won in 1972 for playing Vito Corleone and two years later Deniro also won for playing the same role. If Joaquin Phoenix wins for playing the Joker, he and Heath Ledger will become the second example

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Br8Lb TIL, Hans and Margret Rey, creators of Curious George, escaped France on homemade bicycles less than 48 hours before the Nazis invaded Paris.
Pp7w TIL 5% of the population is indifferent to music, showing no physical or emotional response.
E1BPp TIL Julian Casablancas is credited for writing all lyrics and instrument parts for The Strokes' first three albums for which he offered to split all royalties with the rest of the band.
4XpKX TIL Betty Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100m for women in 1928 at just 16, was later involved in a plane crash. A man who discovered her wrongly thought she was dead and drove her to an undertaker. She awoke from her coma 7 months later, before returning to win a relay gold in 1936.
Oo5Xg TIL that the maker of SoftSoap knew he couldn't patent liquid soap dispensers, so he did the next best thing: he raised $12m and bought out the US's entire manufacturing capacity for two years to prevent other soap companies from stealing his idea.