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TIL Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter, despite only having approximately 15 minutes of screen time.

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ep7a4 TIL that one of the oldest national anthems, the Spanish National Anthem Marcha Real, has no official lyrics at all. It's just the music. And while it is played people just hum "na na na" to the music.
ROWj TIL of Lala the king penguin who lived in Japan with a couple in their apartment. He would walk to a local fish market by himself every day wearing a penguin backpack getting free fish.
8aMVZ TIL Pornhub has participated in numerous philanthropic endeavours and raised $75,000 for breast cancer research after promising to donate one penny for every thirty views in the "big tit" or "small tit" in the month of October 2012.
ddyr TIL Aaron Greenspan, a tech wizard who shared the same dorm with Mark Zuckerberg, built a Facebook-y site long before Facebook was built, but was (allegedly) given no credit when he claims (with documented proof) that Zuckerberg took inspiration from and copied off his product to build Facebook.
ne0bG TIL It is not known how many US federal laws actually exist and are in force