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TIL that "Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond" is the first and currently only video game to win an Oscar. It won it in 2021 for "Colette", a short WWII documentary included in the game

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jDMp TIL the Quetzalcoatlus pterodactyl had a wingspan of about 35 feet (10.6 meters), or about the wingspan of a F-16 fighter.
gMdwL TIL Adolf Hitler, JRR Tolkien, and Anne Frank's father all fought in the Battle of the Somme
4X6aa TIL Donnie Darko was filmed in the same length of time the movie transpired in: 28 Days
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
0wK7y TIL: Rome was basically a ghost town during the Middle Ages. After the fall of the West-Roman empire, the population of Rome dropped from 1MILLION in 330AD to just 20k in 650AD. The population remained roughly the same till ca.1600AD.