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TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock accepted her Golden Raspberry Award in person for Worst Actress for her role in All About Steve. The following night, Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Blind Side.

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y9EV TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
e0644 TIL in the original airing of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Rudolph visited the island of Misfit Toys and promised to help them, but never actually did. Tons of children wrote to Rankin-Bass, concerned for the toys, and got the company to make another scene showing the toys had been saved.
e0WLJ TIL Bruce McMahan, a hedge fund billionaire who married his biological daughter and maintained a manipulative, adulterous, and incestuous relationship with her, managed to successfully scrub his existence from the internet after it was revealed.
BBey TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower anticipated that someday an attempt would be made to recharacterize the Nazi crimes as propaganda. Subsequently, he urged Washington and London to send a random group of newspaper editors to capture evidence that the event existed.
AjV4 TIL Elon Musk stated in an interview that he “wants to die on Mars, just not on impact.”