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TIL the Berlin Wall is now gone for as long as it stood: 28 years

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e0rbD TIL only 5 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director. The Green Book (2018) Argo (2012), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Grand Hotel (1932), and Wings (1927).
5Vowr TIL St Adrian is the patron saint of arms dealers (he also covers butchers, guards, soldiers and peacekeeping missions)
GYEgN TIL Kwihnai Tosabitʉ (White Eagle), a Comanche medicine man, convinced his tribe that they were invincible before a battle. After their defeat, he was blamed and thereafter known as Isatai'i (Coyote Vagina)
na8G TIL that in the 1960s Nintendo manufactured a toy called Ultra Hand. made of criss-crossed plastic elements that enabled its user to pick up objects. It was very successful and helped save Nintendo from serious financial difficulties. Its inventor went on to create the Game Boy.
0GZj TIL A Swedish artist named Max Martin has written or co-written almost every major hit by Brittany Spears, Katy Perry , Pink, Kelly Clarkson, & The Backstreet Boys as well as various hits by Justin Beiber, N'SYNC, Taylor Swift & Maroon 5.