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TIL Beauty and the Beast (1991) became the first animated film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and remained the only animated film until 2010 when the field was widened to 10 nominations (Up was the 2nd).

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rNO4M TIL about the Avignon Papacy, a time between 1309-1376 when 7 French Popes moved the Papal Enclave from the Vatican to France.
pnJG TIL astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon, repeating Galileo’s gravity experiment
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