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TIL Adam Driver has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards, 2 BAFTAs, 4 Emmys, 3 Golden Globes, 4 Screens Actors Guilds, and 1 Tony.....and won none of them.

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j6rYn TIL, that the first pyramid in Pharaonic Egypt wasn't Khufu's pyramid (the great pyramid of giza), However it was his father's (sneferu) known as the "Bent Pyramid," located in Dahshur.
PRDw TIL that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children recommends that children OF ANY AGE should not be permitted to use public restrooms alone.
nxYb TIL that NASA, in fact, did NOT spend millions of dollars producing the space pen while soviet astronauts simply used a pencil.
P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
R79QQ TIL: The Clarendon Library in Oxford has a clock that has been powered by the same batteries since 1840. To date its bells have rung over 10 Billion times.