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TIL that Tom and Jerry has won Seven Oscars.

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GY5YE TIL of an organization called the National Lawyers Guild. The NLG can deploy a team of Legal Observers to a protest or demonstration. They act as a source of legal advice for protesters, and “may serve as a deterrent to unconstitutional behavior by law enforcement.” Look for their green hats!
x6457 TIL a team of researchers at UC Irvine found that the average attention span in 2004 was 150 seconds. In 2012 it was found to be 75 seconds, and recently was found to be 47 seconds.
09nN TIL that every year around a dozen Japanese tourists have psychiatric breakdowns caused by French rudeness
nW9Lb TIL for over 100 years the Belgian Army has has a service that's been removing a yearly average of 250 tons of WWI/WWII unexploded ordinance from around Belgium.
ODeg TIL Major banks like UBS, HSBC, and Barclays have been submitting phony numbers, often in concert with each other for years. Together they manipulated world markets, specifically the Libor rate, which controls interest rates worldwide, causing trillions in damage. No banker will spend a day in jail.