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TIL that at the 59th Academy Awards, the award for Best Sound was presented by Marlee Matlin, who would later that night become the first deaf actor to ever win an Oscar

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eYLD TIL The Cure once played a four-hour concert during which they played 50 songs.
oBeo TIL Food Stamps are the best form of economic stimulus (far ahead of tax cuts)
gyly TIL that in an attempt to reduce poo on the streets, anyone handing in a bag of dog poop in New Taipei City, Taiwan, was entered into a lottery for gold ingots and other prizes
jYGN TIL that Bohemian Grove is a 137 year old secret camp, that Nixon called “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine”. The camp is private and only open to the rich and powerful men of the world.
YpZgv TIL that a woman got her 20 boyfriends to buy her 20 iPhones, then sold them to buy a house