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TIL that upon its 1977 release, Star Wars won six Oscars, three Grammys, and two BAFTA awards, and that Time magazine also named it the "Movie of the Year"

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xV7yD TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended Lincoln's second inauguration and was close enough to shoot him
Br5XK TIL in 1964 Coca-Cola threatened to leave Atlanta if elites didn’t recognize MLK’s Nobel Prize.
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
0BMv TIL Bob Feller pitched a game against the White Sox on Mother’s Day 1939 with his family in attendance. One of his pitches was fouled off into the seats, into the face of his own mother right above the right eye, resulting in her needing seven stitches. Feller went on to win the game.
Lk8mm Today I learned that Bill Nye (of Science Guy fame) invented a hydraulic component used on the 747 airliners, and holds three patents for other inventions.