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TIL Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for an Oscar

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dD6g7 TIL: The official Yu-Gi-Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to rulebook. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty clothing or terrible odor by giving them a loss. Super Smash Bros tournament also started implementing similar rules.
pxBG TIL that the popularity of pizza is so recent, than in 1950, a lawyer had a witness explain to a jury what it was
jNEVE TIL Scooby Doo did a parody of The Blair Witch Project that was aired only once on Cartoon Network
5VmD9 TIL in 1912, an Irish physicist invented the optophone which was a device that was intended to allow blind people to hear "light". It was adapted to translate written words to sounds.
mQKx TIL Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” is the most played music video in the history of MTV