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TIL the Academy Award for ‘Best International Film’ is given to the submitting country. The filmmakers are not considered Oscar-winners.

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Ge81 TIL Linkin Parks’ debut album ‘Hybrid Theory’ is the highest selling debut album of the 21st Century.
0kQL TIL that the formation of American English (an American accent) is a result of European colonists attempting to communicate with Native Americans.
BrXad TIL the Pyramids were not built built by slaves and that many experts agree were made by many elite, skilled workers.
wEyJ TIL M. Night Shyamalan once watched Nickelodeon kid show ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’, and particularly enjoyed an episode called “The Tale of the Dream Girl”, which is about a kid who can communicate with the dead. The episode would influence him to write the screenplay for The Sixth Sense.
NLEe TIL that in 1916 a miscalculation of Montana’s population led to 40,000 men being drafted into the 1st World War…10% of the state’s population.