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TIL the first Academy Awards, in 1929, lasted for just 15 minutes.

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yQ4vV TIL: You cannot actually get pink eye from farts or someone having farted on a pillow. “Our pillow is not a host for bacteria or viruses. Yes, our farts can contain bacteria that can transfer onto our pillow, but this will not stay on our pillow for a long length of time.”
5YWyR TIL that a square-shaped building with a volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters could fit inside Earth's entire human population.
kOQAg TIL that there is a Finnish-based, mostly antisocial form of drinking culture, in which the alcoholic consumes alcohol drinks at home in as little clothing as possible, mainly in underwear.
ANMOg TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce
9dvM TIL a German citizen was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police and handed-over to the CIA, who then held him in a black site and interrogated, beat, strip-searched, and sodomized him. When the victim later tried to sue, the case was dismissed as the US government claimed state secrets.