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TIL Tom and Jerry have won seven Academy Awards

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a5vA TIL that when the Oxford College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over five hundred years saying “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”
olpK TIL Chinese censorship has banned Big Yellow Rubber Ducks, Leaders doing Gangnam Style, Penis shaped buildings, Pictures of Empty Chairs, and TV shows that feature Time Travel.
VMZ7B TIL about the Gray Goo Scenario, a hypothetical apocalypse scenario in which all life on earth is consumed into a gray biomass created by self replicating nanomachines
p8BBG TIL Some Native American Indian Nations believe in a mysterious man, a handsome brave who wears white buckskins, and brings gifts to Indian children. His name is 'Handsome Fellow'.
VMOmG TIL of Philippa Fawcett, an English mathematician and the first woman to have topped the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, but who despite scoring 13% higher than the second top scorer did not receive the honorary title of Senior Wrangler.