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TIL Hugh Jackman is one win away from having an EGOT. The one he is missing is the Oscar.

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ANWBw TIL Grumman, the aerospace and defense corporation, also makes the ubiquitous United States Postal Service Truck
WkaR4 TIL that in 1935, a Congressman proposed an amendment that any declaration of war would need a national referendum. He said that "If the United States had such an anti-war provision in its Constitution, other countries would follow our example, and I believe wars would be brought to an end"
pYmX4 TIL that Kamikaze suicide attacks of WWII were not limited to aircraft. There were also submarines (Kairyu), human piloted torpedoes (Kaiten), speedboats (Shinyo), and underwater divers (Fukuryu).
yQYjV TIL about Kirigami a variation of origami that includes cutting of the paper, rather than solely folding the paper as is the case with origami, but typically does not use glue.
OpNa TIL 350 million years ago, when the newly evolved trees were just 1 foot in height, the landscape was dominated by giant 20 foot tall mushrooms