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TIL only 5 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director. The Green Book (2018) Argo (2012), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Grand Hotel (1932), and Wings (1927).

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rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.
nWEPo TIL about the "Zeitpyramide" (or "Time Pyramid") which is a public art project in Germany where one block of the pyramid would be placed every 10 years. The construction of the pyramid began in 1993 and it is expected to be completed in the year 3183.
9YNR7 TIL that an American minister travelled to Britain to learn methods to teach the deaf. After being denied by the British, he learned his methods from the French. As a result, ASL has a 60% similarity to French sign language, and is almost unintelligible to a British sign language user.
XmL8 TIL a British soldier was cut off from his regiment in 1914 and managed to hide in occupied territory in a wardrobe for 4 years with the Germans at one point even helping to move the wardrobe with him in it.
b64wa TIL that Roman Polanski was originally going to plead guilty to charges in return for no jail. However, after hearing the judge was planning to go back on his word and jail him, Polanski fled the United States never to return.