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TIL the original TRON movie didn’t win an academy award for best special effects because the academy said they “cheated” by using computers.

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DpWe TIL Ben Franklin wrote a scientific essay about farts called “Fart Proudly”
w6W8 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.
mxNMv TIL that a prominent slavery apologist in the antebellum South argued that slavery was so wonderful it should be extended to whites
VGJp TIL that when former president Teddy Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919, Thomas R. Marshall, the sitting vice-president, said “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”
gMgaL TIL that François-Marie Arouet derived his pen name 'Voltaire' from a Latin anagram of "The Young Arouet."