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TIL that Tom and Jerry has won Seven Oscars.

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vWm8 TIL the rotary phone was invented by an undertaker. The operator in his hometown was married to his competition, so the rotary dial was a way to bypass the human operator.
rbDo TIL: Only 0.7% of people in India are Buddhists. Apart from the Himalayas and niche locations, Buddhism was virtually extinct in India by the end of the 19th century.
69E58 TIL the cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets a gas mileage of 437 gallons per mile (gpm), or 12 feet per gallon
wZAE TIL that Betty Crocker included the instruction to ‘add an egg’ to their cake mix because it was too easy to make and housewives had felt guilty using it.
WXAY TIL that Charles Darwin published his work, “On the Origin of Species” this day, 155 years ago.