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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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v180D TIL 55% of Americans think it's OK to declaw(they remove part of the bone not just the actual claw) cats. Up to 25% of pet cats in the USA have been declawed. Studies suggest that declawed cats are more likely to have health problems, such as back pain, or behavioural problems, such as aggression.
ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
4XK9J TIL in 2008 the council of the British city of Birmingham printed 360,000 leaflets that featured an image of the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. The council then said that it was meant to be a "generic skyline picture".
E9WP TIL The man who was allegedly assaulted in a McDonald’s for wearing a cybernetic eye (Steve Mann) was also assaulted in 2004, and the attack also damaged the memory buffer of his device and stored images of the attacker.
nWkoB TIL when Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, was attending Harvard, he was unrecognizable to most. He walked with a cane, had a thick beard, long hair, and thick glasses. Fans would walk by in Weezer shirts and not recognize him.