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TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.

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LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"
LyWv TIL: When the Ocarina of Time was remade for the 3DS, Nintendo purposefully did not fix many of the original game’s bugs, to give players as close an experience to the N64 version as possible.
7rlDP TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.
e1JE TIL that Catalina Island (a small island of the coast of L.A.) has non-native buffalo that were brought over for a silent film after the movie was over they left the buffalo and after nearly a century the population has grown to 150.
nWkgd TIL Mystery Snails have both gills and a lung, whereas most other species of snails have either a lung or gills