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TIL Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Academy Award it was nominated for. With 11 wins, it made history as the highest clean sweep in Oscars history.

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OoAZ7 TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina, is still alive and still lives in Texas, the very state where her then husband killed President Kennedy.
k8n1 TIL that pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.
kOJEW TIL The best selling drink in every country on Earth is either Coca-cola or a drink owned by the Coca-Cola company - except for one place. Scotlands own 'Irn-Bru'. It has been the most dominant soft drink in Scotland for a century.
N7LGE TIL Jane Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals although"My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares."
xVZ5k TIL Saudi Arabia owns 15000 acres in California with water rights to the Colorado River so they can cheaply grow alfalfa to feed their cows