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TIL Christoph Waltz is the only actor from a Quentin Tarantino film to win an Oscar

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LQ1QQ TIL that the US government no longer uses the term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), the preferred term is Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) since UFOs are a source of ridicule due to their popular association with alien spacecraft
rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour
l716K TIL before Playtex became one of the largest manufacturers of tampons, they made space suits for the Apollo mission.
wLZp8 TIL that Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two men who reached Mount Everest, didn't know when his exact birthday was. After his ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953, he decided to celebrate his birthday on that day thereafter.
PMaL TIL that the Polish Beer-Lovers Party won 360,000+ votes in Poland’s first free and fair election, in 1991, winning 16 seats in the lower house (Sejm).