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TIL Anne Hathaway won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables with only 15 minutes of screentime across the entire film

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e01L4 TIL of Labi Siffre. Dr. Dre wanted to sample his 1970s song "I got the..." for Eminem's "My Name Is" but Siffre, openly gay, initially refused, demanding sexist and homophobic lyrics be removed. Dre and Eminem made changes and the song became a massive hit.
VBn7m TIL that the male redback spider will assist his partner during sexual cannibalism by somersaulting toward her mouthparts. Because this allows him to mate only once, some find a juvenile female -- too young to eat him -- and break her exoskeleton to deliver his sperm for her to use when mature.
nWdxW TIL that mountain goats aren't goats at all, they're wooly mountain antelopes.
KYlrG TIL the joke question "who's buried in Grant's Tomb" arguably has several correct answers. President Grant was to be interred but his wife died shortly before the tomb's completion, so both were laid to rest there. Neither was technically buried, though. They rest in an above-ground crypt.
y17e TIL a mummified dinosaur was found in Alberta in 2011