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

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d8jYj TIL the most G force a person has survived was in the 2003 Chevy 500 when the car driven by Kenny Bräck made contact with Tomas Scheckter's car. This immediately resulted in Bräck's car impacting the catch fence that would record a peak of 214 g meaning he weighed 30000 lbs for a few seconds.
WyXL TIL 48 percent of black women have herpes.
neKJ7 TIL the Herbert Hoover spoke fluent Chinese.
EL8x TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States, Charles Curtis, had considerable Native American ancestry and even spoke Kansa, the native tongue of the Kaw tribe.
5Yjlk TIL the moon has a barely discernible atmosphere compared to the Earth, which is why the moon is covered in impact craters from passing meteorites & space debris when compared to the Earth, where most spacial detritus burns up before impact.