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Today I Learned Gary Oldman unsuccessfully applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which welcomed him to try again the following year, but advised him to find something else to do for a living. He has since won an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild Award and numerous other awards.

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m9MM TIL that every known prime number above 3 is one more or less than a multiple of 6 (6n±1)
D1DLV TIL that the Marvel character Howard the Duck, under threat of legal action, is forced to wear always pants. Disney was afraid people would confuse him for Donald Duck and demanded Marvel draw pants on Howard so that you could tell them apart.
0wp9N TIL about the Dog's Bollocks, a defunct punctuation mark which appears in the Declaration of Independence and symbolizes a pause but fell to the wayside because of its phallic resemblance
l8rV TIL of the greatest flood the world has ever known - the Missoula Floods. It created the Scablands in WA in as little as 48 hours where at one point was the largest and most powerful waterfall in the history of the Earth.
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