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TIL that Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Hannibal Lecter. His Screen time was little over 16 minutes, less than 14% of the film’s running time.

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rRkXo TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. A modified WWI bomber with an open cockpit took off from Newfoundland, Canada with a crew of two. They almost spiraled into the ocean twice in heavy fog, had to climb onto the wings to clear ice, and landed in a bog in Connemara, Ireland.
9YPND TIL Jim Becker, a Packers fan hall-of-famer, routinely sold his blood to buy season tickets, which inadvertently saved his life when he was found to have Hemochromatosis, a genetic disorder that leads to toxic iron deposition in the body, and an early death. The only treatment is bloodletting.
EgyGx TIL That in Norse mythology, Odin's eight legged horse "Sleipnir" was actually given birth by Loki , when he was trying to distract a certain fortress Builder's horse so that he couldn't finish his job on time and the gods didn't have to give the sun, the moon and the goddess Freyja to him.
n9E7 TIL the President of the University of Oregon turned down having “The Graduate” filmed at the school in 1967. Not wanting to make the same mistake again, he allowed another movie to be filmed there around a decade later. That movie was “Animal House”.
ADgJd TIL Marlon Brando’s final film was a movie called “Big Bug Man”. The animated film, co-starring Brendan Fraser, still has not been released and likely never will be.