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TIL that Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro), the Joker (Heath Ledger & Joaquin Phoenix) and Anita (Rita Moreno & Ariana DeBose) are the 3 characters whose portrayals won Academy awards for two different persons.

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ZWo TIL that Fred Perry, the last British Wimbledon men’s champion, also won the Table Tennis Championship, the only tennis player to ever do so.
9Y5jD TIL that a man walked across Australia, from Perth to Sydney, dressed in a Stormtrooper costume to raise money for a charity that helps cheer up hospitalized children. Over 9 months he traveled 3000 miles (5000km), lost over 26lbs (12kg), went through 7 pairs of shoes, and raised more than $100,000.
Ng9P TIL there is a radio station in Somalia that has given away assault rifles and hand grenades to children as competition prizes
78ndP TIL of the word monomania, a term used in 19th century psychiatry to describe a form of partial insanity conceived as single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound mind.
W7rOo TIL that lobsters taste with their legs and chew with their stomachs.