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TIL Zildjian (cymbal company) is almost 400 years old

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6E1g7 TIL Shrek dominated the 2002 BAFTA Awards: it received 6 nominations including Best Film and Best Supporting Actor (Eddie Murphy is the only actor to ever be nominated for a voice-over performance), and went to win the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the only animated movie to do so.
eeOg TIL People with surnames beginning with a letter near the start of the alphabet are more likely to win a Nobel Prize, due to being listed first in scientific papers.
rRpyd TIL that Japan withdrew funding from UNESCO after Nanjing Massacre documents were inscribed in the UN body’s Memory of the World list.
BmEx TIL Biggie Smalls did not allow his best friend Lil Cease into the studio when he recorded ‘This Time Around’ with Michael Jackson because Big didn’t trust Michael with kids (Cease was 16 at the time)
4Xr0J TIL that in the 1930s, the Communist Party of Germany allied with the Nazi's (who they referred to as "working people's comrades"), to overthrow the Social Democratic government under the belief that a Nazi government would collapse and lead to a Communist one gaining power