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TIL Walt Disney received one full-size Oscar for Snow White—as well as seven miniature ones

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neZ0o TIL Paul Castellano, the future head of the Gambino crime family, allegedly ordered the 1975 murder of Vito Borelli, the boyfriend of his daughter Constance, because he compared him to Frank Perdue, the owner and spokesperson for Perdue Farms, and felt insulted
d4PQ TIL the original TRON movie didn’t win an academy award for best special effects because the academy said they “cheated” by using computers.
GY7MJ TIL sociologist David Dunning once wrote: "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is." He described this phenomenon as the "the anosognosia of everyday life."
LZ7d TIL that during the search and rescue operations for the September 11th attacks, it was becoming rarer and rarer for rescue dogs to find anyone, leading them to feel failed, so firefighters hid in the rubble for the dogs to find them.
loB6A TIL Charles Dickens only worked 9am to 2pm and wrote his 28 books and over 200 essays without working longer than 5 hours a day.