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TIL "In 1956, the students of the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre arts voted two actors as the least likely to succeed: two friends, Gene Hackman (who had the lowest grades at that point in the history of the school) and Dustin Hoffmann. Both went on to win two Oscars each

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4XZ7J TIL The longest congaline in the world is 119,986 people long and that record hasn't been broken since 1988
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