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TIL Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for an Oscar

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epmjb TIL of the Kensington Runestones discovered in Minnesota in 1898, dating back to 1366. It indicated an attack on a group of villagers leaving 10 dead while on a fishing trip. Its validity as an accurate viking runestones is disputed.
Zmpp TIL Dave Matthews’ older sister, Anne, was murdered in 1994 by her husband, who later killed himself. Dave and his sister Jane then began to raise Anne’s kids.
YlXP TIL the Statue of Liberty’s hand sat in a New York park for 6 years before being installed. While the French paid for the statue, the US didn’t want to pay for the pedestal, so to raise money, photographs were sold to tourists and for 50 cents, you could climb a ladder to the top of the torch.
XExmr TIL that all-time great director Andrei Tarkovsky dismissed colour film as a gimmick, saying that in everyday life one does not consciously notice colours most of the time, and that films in colour are like moving paintings or photographs, which are too beautiful to be a realistic depiction of life
BgyxD TIL that the red spot on Jupiter is, in simple terms, a storm larger than earth that’s lasted for 150+ years