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TIL that each Oscar Award loser receives a consolation bag of goodies. This year’s “goodie bag” was worth $48,000.

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KYAkR TIL a policeman William Potts invented the first tri-colour, four-directional traffic signal in 1920 in Motor City (Detroit).
VBOMm TIL that Phineas Gage survived an accident where a metal rod pierced his skull. It happened in 1948, while working on a new railroad line, a three-foot-long metal rod pierced his left cheek, passed behind his eye, and perforated part of his brain. He survived.
ep6w4 TIL there are 20 mountains over 23,000 ft in the world that have never been climbed.
dwkB TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from two schools and went to prison for credit card fraud
loPVG TIL of John Solomon Rarey, a 19th century horse whisperer who tamed a horse named Cruiser which was known as "the fiercest horse ever seen". After meeting Rarey, Cruiser was said to be as gentle as a lamb. When Rarey died in 1866, Cruiser's bad temper returned.