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TIL there used to be an award for Typography in film

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LQRe0 TIL that the water anole lizard can stay underwater for up to 16 minutes by trapping an air bubble on its snout and rebreathing it. With its built-in bubble helmet, it quietly evades predators and hunts like a tiny reptilian scuba diver.
D1mGe TIL a "fat-in" was staged in New York's Central Park in 1967 as a fat acceptance movement. It consisted of a group of 500 people eating, carrying signs and photographs of Sophia Loren (an actress famous for her figure), and burning diet books.
VMZP4 TIL in 1951 a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicykle race due to being to old. He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”
yrnl TIL we’re closer to the time period the Jetson’s lived in (2062) then the year the show was created (1962).
Mey6a TIL that a schizophrenic Canadian man who beheaded and then partially cannibalized a fellow passenger on a greyhound bus in 2008, was institutionalised for 9 years and then given an absolute discharge and released.