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TIL Oscar Hammerstein II is the only perso to win an Oscar and be named Oscar.

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jNDGE TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.
RRV7 TIL There’s a company that makes replacement parts to modify Nerf guns.
W70JN TIL the Low German language is more closely related to English than to Standard German, as Low German and English are classified as North Sea Germanic languages, whereas Standard German is an Elbe Germanic language
rNrwx TIL in the aftermath of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a sports stadium had been commandeered as a makeshift morgue. Inside, bodies were packed in ice with only their heads and hands showing so relatives could identify them.
9wbmr TIL that Benjamin Franklin never patented any of his many inventions, writing that “as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.”