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TIL no Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi has won an Oscar despite 20 further nominations

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5Vvpr TIL Mumbai in India has the highest concentration of Art Deco style buildings in the world after only Miami, US.
oo7A TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday
x5VB TIL in investigating prostitution at a Seattle strip club, an undercover cop visited the club 160 times, spent at least $16,835 of taxpayer money on 130 lap dances and an undetermined number of undocumented dances, and never made a single arrest.
1YnV TIL the bad grammar and spelling errors found in scam emails & phishing attempts from Nigerian princes (etc) is done on purpose; spell checkers are intentionally not used: Research from Microsoft suggests that email scammers maximise profits by entrapping only the most gullible who overlook spelling
GAl17 TIL of Bible John, a Scottish serial killer who was never found, who reportedly left torn out pages of the Bible near his victims bodies