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TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock made history when she won an Oscar and Razzie in the same year.

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5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.
epmrb TIL in the 1950s General Motors sponsored three Looney Tunes episodes to promote capitalist ideas.
VMD5p TIL about the three grand soups, a Japanese term referring to the 3 best soups in the world: Borscht, Bouillabaisse, shark fin soup, and tom yam kung. There is no consensus about which of the 3 out of 4 are the true grand soups.
GAW04 TIL that the US military was concerned about the potential backlash from Catholics if Rome was bombed during WWII.
KOXpw TIL that Genghis Khan slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city because they killed his son-in-law. Khans grieving daughter requested that all citizens be decapitated to ensure they were dead and that pyramids be built from their skulls