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TIL that the pilot episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for “Best Animated Short Film” at the 1995 Academy Awards.

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6JvZ TIL that NASA and the JPL released retro/futuristic artwork, available for free, that illustrate what space exploration might eventually mean to the human race.
nWWK9 TiL that upon finishing the sci fi film "Devil Girls From Mars", a then 12 year old Octavia Butler concluded that she could write a better story. Butler went on to win multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
4kmBN TIL that Baby Face Nelson killed more FBI agents than any other criminal in history.
R7Kka TIL the California Highway Patrol are not known as CHiPs.
gM5Pb TIL about the 1898 Siege of Baler. During the Philippine revolution a 50 soldiers detachment of the Spanish 2nd Expeditionary Battalion Cazadores managed to survive 337 days in a fortified church, while killing 700 Filipino Revolutionaries and suffering only 17 casualties mostly due to disease.