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TIL that Kobe Bryant won an Oscar.

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mYLv TIL twice a year the sun perfectly lines up with the streets of New York, creating a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.
R50K1 TIL that as of June 2022, Canada has a land border with Europe. After decades of disagreement – called the 'whisky war' – over who owned the unoccupied Hans Island between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and Greenland, the two governments agreed to split it down the middle.
4RA6 TIL that on one occasion, J.S. Bach was in Dresden at the same time as a French organist named Louis Marchand. There was to be a competition between the two men to see who was better at improvisation. Marchand heard Bach practicing the day before the competition and left town.
5wVk TIL than in 1881 a woman got away with murdering a man who broke off their engagement by using the “hysteria defense,” i.e., a doctor told the jury that “Any virtuous woman when deprived of her virtue would go mad, undoubtedly.” The jury acquitted her in 20 minutes.
R7yX7 TIL 8231 passengers have died in Aeroflot crashes, the most of any airline. Air France is second with 1783