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TIL Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person at the Oscars. Beating family, friends and God.

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9YB7X TIL In Germany you can be punished by up to one year in prison if you don't help someone who's in danger or has had an accident
WkZ64 TIL Henry Ford created what is today known as Kingsford Charcoal by reusing old scrap wood from his car manufacturing plants and later spinning off the company to a family member
6EAGw TIL There are freshwater jellyfish in the Landlocked state of Arkansas
m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
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