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TIL that Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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9YNn6 TIL Wilson won the Critics’ Choice Award “Best Inanimate Object” for his role in Cast Away
Jj4v TIL Rage Against the Machine played a free show in London as a reward for making “Killing in the Name” the top single in the UK during Christmas 2009
9dLG TIL that in 2011, after being nominated for worst company in America again, Comcast tried to get their employees to vote multiple times in an effort to not be the worst company. Before they issued the memo, they had 65% of the vote. After news got out, they had over 83%.
VBM9m TIL about Westsylvania, a 14th state of the U.S. that was proposed early in the American Revolution, and would have included parts of Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia & Pennsylvania.
rpV1 TIL that the highest grossing piece of entertainment of any kind, ever, with a gross of 5.6 billion dollars, is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera”