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TIL that the Razzie Awards that hand out prizes for the worst performances each to stand in opposition to the Oscars, also hand out "Redeemer" awards for people and groups that have won or be nominated for Razzies in the past, but managed to redeem themselves with actual good performances.

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l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
Pb0e TIL that amethyst used to be counted alongside diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires as one of the most valuable gemstones. However, an extensive supply was found in Brazil in the 18th century and the price subsequently crashed.
R7Gw4 TIL the probability of at least "Low-Level Intelligent Life" on other planets in the Milky Way is as high as 75%.
Y7X8x TIL Espionage Act violations carry up to 10 years prison penalty per violation (per document)
ne7DG TIL the term "meme" was created by Richard Dawkins in 1976 as a shortened version of the Greek word mimeme, which means imitated thing.