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TIL that when Willie Fulgear found 52 stolen Oscars right before the 2000 Oscars ceremony, he was rewarded with $50,000 and a seat at the award show. But soon after, the police targeted and harassed him, and the money he won was stolen as well.

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PYQoL TIL when California two-spot octopuses (a specific species) were submerged in an ecstasy solution, they got calmer and more sociable with other octopuses they previously ignored. While this showed they react similarly to humans on MDMA, this was a pilot experiment that needs further research.
Oope4 TIL Alexander Tukhachevsky was a Russian general who died at the Battle of Warsaw in 1831. Almost a century later, his great-grandson, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, also a Russian general, would be defeated at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920.
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1YGd TIL that Dan Bullock altered his birth certificate so that he could join the Marines in 1968. Six months later he became the youngest service member to die in combat in Vietnam. He was 15.