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TIL Disney animated movies won the Academy Award for Best Original Song 5 times from 1989 - 1995. (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, Pocahontas)

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Pp1n TIL that Mythbuster’s Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at the age of 14 and then hitchhiked all over the US. After that he is now a certified diver,wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef.
p8kPZ TIL of an alleged mental disorder called 'zero stroke' which came about during German hyperinflation in the early 1920s. Those affected would write endless strings of zeros and, in some cases, state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children
ZplJQ TIL a British communist in New Zealand released 15,000+ invasive fish using his Ford Zephyr he’d converted with fish tanks. He permanently damaged waterways and ecosystems
6EJXl TIL an Italian man found wandering Edinburgh claiming to have no memory of who he was or how he got there admitted to faking amnesia to avoid his nagging mother-in-law. His disappearance from Pisa raised suspicion when online searches 'how to disappear' and 'how to fake memory loss' were discovered.
g4n8 TIL that chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer literally spat on a US order warning him that a rematch in Eastern Europe would violate US sanctions. He played the match and then spent the next 16 years as a fugitive outside the US until his death.