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

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LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.
X6xE TIL Albert Einstein’s brains were kept and dissected both improperly and against his wishes, and his eye balls remain in a safe deposit box in New York City…
KOew4 TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”
eE0L TIL that there are detailed images of all the Apollo landing sites. You can even see the tracks left by the Astronauts as they performed their experiments.
ro0M TIL Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, among other films does not use a cell phone or an e-mail because he’s just “not interested”, it gives him “time to think”, and he also prohibits them on the set of a movie