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TIL that while Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, Sylvester Stallone didn't win any Oscars for it even though he wrote it and starred in it

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1aLvP TIL a rat broke into an ATM machine and ate/destroyed over $17,500 (USD) of cash.
1aA9D TIL that William Moore, a co-author of The Roswell Incident (the book that inspired the idea that the Roswell crash was an alien spacecraft), admitted in 1989 he lied to the UFO community for years in accordance with the US Airforce to deceive civilians
wLpgE TIL your belly button has bacteria unique to you and can be found in far reaches of earth you've never visited, and thousands of strains were never before seen anywhere by science.
7wVM TIL Kellog’s Corn Flakes were originally invented to get young people to stop masturbating.
8eKpV TIL Albert Kahn revolutionized factory construction with reinforced concrete in 1903. By 1929, his firm trained Russian architects, and by 1937 he had designed 19% of U.S. industrial factories. As of 2020, about 60 of his buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.