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TIL Spirited Away director Hayao Miyazaki won every award he was nominated for from 1979 to 1998.

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8abjL TIL a 60 years old Japanese Truck Driver found out he was accidentally switched at birth in 1953 at San Ikukai Hospital in Tokyo. His biological parents are rich family & the infant who took his place grew up to be the Head of a Real Estate company. Meanwhile he was raised by a poor single mother.
QJ8AE TIL that when Cadillac engineers disassembled a 1990 Lexus LS 400 for engineering analysis, they concluded that the vehicle simply could not be built using existing General Motors production methods.
6vKw TIL there was a cancelled animated show called “Clone High” that was about a government ran high school. The students were clones of famous people, such as Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra, and John F. Kennedy.
6EkNm TIL a fire in 2008 destroyed the master recordings of hundreds of artists, including John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M. and Eminem
XErRj TIL that when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was hijacked and flown to Switzerland, the Swiss Air Force did not respond because the "incident occurred outside normal office hours."