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Wr9L TIL The Lord of The Rings trilogy was nominated for 800 awards for the entire series and won 475 of them, making the movies the most awarded film series in cinematic history.
xVM1B TIL China has a history of using underage athletes in Gymnastics in the Olympics
7dQx TIL Australia’s 17th Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at beach and was never seen again
8eLk4 TIL that in 2010, a crocodile that was being smuggled aboard an airplane got loose. When passengers scrambled to the front of the plane, it shifted the plane's center of gravity, causing them to crash. There was only one survivor.
9Yx66 TIL a professor at Baylor University started the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project by collecting thousands of songs and photos from the 1940s to the 1980s, and these lost pieces of history are available online, free of charge.