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TIL that aside from a Golden Globe in 2004, Leonardo DiCaprio has never won any major awards for his work

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AN0YB TIL Lord Lyndhurst’s Act (1835) prohibited marriage to your dead wife's sister. This was repealed by the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907) [United Kingdom]
pkn4 TIL of Paul Powell, an Illinois politician who was found dead in his hotel sweet residence in Springfield, IL with $800,000 in cash, 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios, and 2 cases of creamed corn.
p8kN TIL Leon Theremin invented the Rhythmicon, the world’s first drum-machine. Today is his birthday.
KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
Y7PmW TIL that in 1947 the town of Holt, Missouri (population 471) experienced the greatest 1 hour rainfall total ever observed worldwide: 12 inches of rain fell in just 42 minutes.