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TIL that some researchers in Antarctica grow marijuana there

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4dVb TIL The person who holds the record for most Oscars is Walt Disney. He has 22.
W7xnA TIL about Phoebus Cartel, an oligopoly that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in the '20s and '30s. It included corporations based in Europe and the United States, like Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, and Philips.
wLo5P TIL: In the 1960's A Russian writer wrote a book about earthlings who travel to the moon, only to discover a "western style" capitalism society, and spend the remains of the book "liberating" the moon inhabitants from the jaws of capitalism via you guessed it, communism
epDdE TIL American ballet dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq contracted polio at age 27 in 1956 and was confined to a wheelchair. Le Clercq began studying with George Balanchine at age 12 and married him at age 23. When she was 15, Balanchine choreographed a dance for a polio benefit which presaged her illness.
YprGv TIL that Steven Spielberg bought and donated to the Academy Awards two Oscars that were being auctioned privately. He paid $578,000 for Bette Davis’ Best Actress Oscar for the 1938 movie “Jezebel,” and $607,500 for Clark Gable’s Best Actor Oscar for 1934’s “It Happened One Night.”