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TIL the living person with the most Oscars is the guy who wrote the songs for the 90s Disney films

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XPjP TIL most “baby carrots” are cut-down carrots that would otherwise be rejected from supermarkets for being too ugly
NXgnE TIL that the Giants and Dodgers used to be based in New York and Brooklyn respectively. For different reasons they both coincidentally moved to the West Coast around the same time, continuing their same-state rivalry
neW5P TIL that when you fall in love, your serotonin levels drop to a point that rivals a person with OCD, which is why you get an obsessive wanting for your partner.
B4aW TIL that Joseph Heller, when told by an interviewer that he had “never produced anything else as good as Catch-22,” responded: “Who has?”
oRlgE TIL that the word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning forced labor or drudgery, and was first used in the play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek in 1920.