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TIL The song "Blame Canada" in The South Park movie, was nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. Unfortunately the song lost to Phil Collins' "you'll be in my heart" from the movie Tarzan.

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lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
7rvvO TIL 22 of Russia's subdivisions are "republics", each with their own constitution, language and legislature, similar to the UK's "countries within a country" system
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woGWJ TIL Peter Davidson who played the fifth Dr Who, and Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy have a daughter, Georgia Tennant, who portrayed the daughter of the tenth Doctor Who, and later married the actor who played him.