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TIL Gary Oldman has never received an Academy Award nomination until this year. Even though being in films such as Sid and Nancy, The Contender, The Fifth Element, Harry Potter and Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.

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7LLM TIL that Viking metal band Amon Amarth takes its name from Tolkien’s Middle Earth. It is the Númenórean name for Mount Doom.
KY6VQ TIL researchers from the University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland calculated the value of pi to over 62 trillion digits taking over 108 days to complete the calculation.
a400 TIL Ambercrombie burns its unsold clothes. They don’t donate them because it is a bad image for the company to have poor people wear them.
OdO4 TIL - 2000 was the first year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all 50 states
X7pQ TIL That thanks to the series finale of St Elsewhere, and using actual cross over links (i.e. characters appearing on other shows), it can be argued the greater implication is that dozens of other shows existed in the mind of an autistic child.