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TIL only one horror movie has ever won an Oscar for Best Picture - The Silence of the Lambs - it is also one of only three films of all time to win all 5 top awards

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LLOV TIL that in the 80s (a decade before the WWW started to come on its own) 25 million people in France went on-line to bank, check the weather, chat, make reservations, socialize, check stock prices, and also for porn. No computer: they used a free Minitel terminal.
LaXQ TIL A US McDonald’s Medium cup is bigger than a Japanese large
XLr8 TIL the apple logos on Apple laptops were upside down until Steve Jobs saw them repeatedly on the show The West Wing, at which time he had them turned right side up.
oBkvA TIL in the 1792 Presidential election, George Washington got 100.0% of the vote. Which was only 28,579 votes.
pRRQ TIL blacks and Hispanics make up BOTH 96% of victims and suspects of shootings in New York City (Page 11 of 16 in the report) and 85%+ of all crime suspects according to the NYPD [PDF]