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TIL John C. Reilly appeared in three of the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 2002 Academy Awards (Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours)

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9RZ7 TIL that the Mars company does not approve of people deep frying their chocolate bars because “it does not fit the company’s promotion of healthy living”.
9eeG TIL that in 1909, dueling with wax bullets became popular. Defeated parties could be “theoretically pronounced dead… and the supposedly fatal results created general merriment.”
awn1o TIL To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound
7r0MM TIL the ponds that are common in residential neighborhoods are not installed as water features, they’re actually retention basins used to offset the drainage capacity of the ground removed by paving roads and building houses
JY754 TIL about Wilfred Pickles, a northern English BBC newsreader during the Second World War. Because of his strong Yorkshire accent, he was chosen for the job as "a deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters".