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TIL John Williams has been nominated for an Academy Award 50 times, and only won 5 times - the last in 1993, for Schindler’s List

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xWj0 TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.
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