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TIL "Shrek" won the first Academy Award for best animated feature.

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mxVwP TIL that Canada sent 50 beavers to Argentina in 1946, but now number over 100,000 and are destorying Argentina's forests.
M6KW TIL Alfred Hitchcock wrote a story for Look magazine in 1943 called “The Murder of Monty Woolley”. It was a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to inspect the photos for clues to the murderer’s identity.
jNbva TIL that director Steven Spielberg is never present when the last scene of his movies are being shot
ANoA4 TIL a 3,200-year-old tablet shows that ancient Egyptians took attendance at work and recorded absences. One type of reason cited for missing work was "wife or daughter bleeding" referring to menstruation because men were needed at home during this time to help with the housework.
d4a8 TIL that during Christmas 2000/New Year’s Eve 2001, Czech TV suffered a bizarre crisis that, among other things, left the public channel off the air for 2 days.