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TIL Tom and Jerry have won seven Academy Awards

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o0rA TIL that the Pope can appoint secret cardinals, and even the selected individual may not know he has cardinal status. The name can be made public at any time, but if the pope dies before revealing the name of a secret cardinal, the individual will no longer be a cardinal.
7jOx TIL for Donald Ducks’s 50th birthday, Walt Disney World hatched 50 Peking ducks in front of Donald Duck, so they would think he is their “mother” and follow him around for a birthday celebration parade.
Y7GGZ TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.
j6J4E TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain.
Me6rb TIL Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was fortunate to have been taught to read by his owner mistress and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation