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TIL that author and radio host Amy Krouse Rosenthal publicly announced that she had ovarian cancer by writing a modern love essay for the NY Times that was a dating profile for her soon to be widower husband. She died 10 days after publication.

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bVNp TIL Patton (1970) lead actor George C. Scott refused his second Academy Award and later stated “The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don’t want any part of it.”
1x04 TIL Stephen Hawking’s birthday (January 8, 1942) is the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
ZpAgp TIL the 1982 film Missing, an Academy Award nominee for best picture, was pulled from the US home video market for over 20 years due to a libel suit by the former US ambassador to Chile.
GQ1j TIL that if economic losses reported by the media industry due to piracy are true, it would equal the entire American corn crop, fruit crop, wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice, and sorghum crops. Combined.
R5BR1 TIL the 1886 Charleston, SC earthquake was so powerful, it caused speculation that Florida had broken off from the mainland USA