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TIL the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania in 1981 (but the practice continues openly to this day)

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NX74J TIL that there is one Academy Award winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for 'The Way of All Flesh', which has no known surviving complete copies.
W09N TIL Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor oscar for ‘Silence of the Lambs’ with only 16 minutes of screentime.
p87nb TIL that actress Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, not Hispanic, even though she’s played several Hispanic characters and has even noted that she’s aware that she doesn’t look Welsh.
VMaEZ TIL that before being retconned as an Italian like Mario, Wario was intended to be German: in his early voiced appearances, he says "So ein Mist!" (the German equivalent of "aw, crap!") when defeated.
AGNx TIL the only evidence of the deaths of most of the RMS Titanic’s passengers are pairs of shoes laying side by side on the ocean floor, where bodies had lain before decomposing.