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TIL that George C. Scott watched a hockey game at home and went to sleep in lieu of attending the Academy Awards the night he won best actor for Patton

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XE7bX TIL a 3 year old girl from Bristol was awared for bravery after successfully calling and informing emergency services that her pregnant mother had an accident and was unconscious.Remaining calm through the whole affair she gave them the address,checked if she was breathing and where she got hurt
VrgG TIL that Axe advertising was targeted to work on insecure males. The ads were so succesful that the brand eventually backpedaled, as the brand was being too closely associated with their target group.
b9Lj7 TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.
WwJX TIL, in U.S prisons, suicidal behavior (e.g., self-harm) while in solitary confinement is punished with more solitary confinement.
oxx7 TIL in the Philippines, there is an island called Luzon. On this island there’s a lake called Taal Lake. In this lake is an island called Volcano Island. On this island is a lake called Main Crater Lake. In this lake there’s an island called Volcano Point.