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TIL Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

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w7bM TIL a Naval reservist was prosecuted and sentenced after pleading guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, though the “investigation did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel”
PYA8G TIL about Isaac Woodard, an African-American World War II veteran who was beaten and blinded by police officers in South Carolina hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army, the sheriff in charge of the attack was acquitted by an all-white jury
KWr4 TIL Norwegian Air Shuttle set up a public poll asking customers to pick a famous Norwegian historic figure whose picture would decorate the aircraft’s tailfin. Euronymous, founder of the black metal band Mayhem, lead the poll.
kO151 TIL a suicide bomber was blown up prematurely when a spam text wishing her a happy New Year detonated the bomb.
ogKR TIL researchers secretly recorded patients and doctors, and found that 41% of cases had ‘contextual’ errors or red flags that were not accounted for in treatment plans