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TIL- That there was a Pipe Smoker of the Year award. Winners included Stephen Fry, Tony Benn and Patrick Moore

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VKa0 TIL in 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games, Canada scored 132 goals and let in 3 in the entire ice hockey competition.
X0k7P TIL Disney's "Corey in the House" has a Nintendo DS game and it has one of the highest rated user scores on the Metacritic. "Rarely does a work so groundbreaking and epic in scale exhibit such a visceral, searing arc of human pathos"
ZJrv TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection
Z8kyo TIL We are designed to create stories as soon as we have enough informations available. The heider-Simmel illusion is a perfect example of it, as we only see triangles, lines and a circle, but still understand it as "a good one helping a circle to escape from the bad triangle after a fight".
xxO5 TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio’s face was severely injured in 2005 when model Aretha Wilson hit him over the head with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party. She was later sentenced to 2 years in jail.