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TIL there is a Worlds Ugliest Dog competion that has been held at the Sonoma-Marin fair in North CA since the 1970s

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gMKW7 TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).
4knV6 TIL of the Ovitz family, not only the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded but also the largest family (12 people ranging from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and survive intact
8aB94 TIL Actor Kit Harington is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the plot to blow up parliament. Kit also plays Catesby in the BBC drama Gunpowder, retelling the story behind the plot.
pQvN TIL that candle flames contains millions of tiny diamonds, as they contain all four known forms of carbon.
kOeG4 TIL that violinist Joshua Bell, sat at a metro station in Washington DC and played a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes, and collected $32 from people passing by.