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

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696r8 TIL The Bronx High School of Science has 9 Nobel Prize winning alumni, which is more than China or Spain
4Xjd6 TIL Winston Churchill got Iran to change its name to Persia, to avoid confusion with Iraq during WW2
78APL TIL that the place Julius Caesar was murdered, “Torre Argentina,” is now a cat sanctuary.
MeYNb TIL the tapeworm diet started with women in the Victorian Era. The style was to have pale skin, eyes that looked dilated, red cheeks and lips, and a tiny waist. In the age of corsets, they also ingested tapeworms to lose weight. Still practiced today, women take a pill that has a tapeworm egg inside
D6wp TIL the 9/11 tragedy released a cloud of asbestos fibers over NYC. 400 tons of asbestos was in the WTC building. An estimated 410,000 people were exposed to the toxic substance. Nearly 70% of rescuers have lung problems. Experts expect cancer diagnoses to peak in 2041-four decades after the attack.