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

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0wggL TIL in 2010 the Navy spent $14 million to alter the appearance of a San Diego naval building that resembles a Nazi swastika. After the project was completed in 2016, it still looked like a swastika.
d8gYr TIL in 1985 Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant covered the 60s ballad "Sea of Love". It was put on the B-side of a Rocking At Midnight as a throwaway track, and when it went popular Plant feared his career was finished and he'd be remembered as a crooner of love songs.
Wky7d TIL that the movie 'The Blues Brothers' had a cocaine budget
v1D9L TIL of Maximilian 1, a 32 year old Austrian noble who was made Emperor of Mexico by France during the American Civil War.
8e4wX TIL that 706 (now north Georgia) and 905 (now outside Toronto) were area codes for Mexico until 1991.