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TIL Actress Jeanne Eagels was posthumously nominated for Best Actress at the 2nd Academy Awards in 1929 after suddenly dying that year at the age of 39 from the effects of addiction

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gMZKX TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all.
4kxx5 TIL that Eris was described initially as the tenth planet of the solar system after Pluto by NASA, motivated the IAU to define the term 'planet' for the first time. The new definition thus revoked the planet status of Pluto, Eris and Ceres naming them 'dwarf' planets.
m1WPO TIL that in its first appearance at the Olympics, Suriname was represented by a single athlete, a runner who missed his event for arriving late to the heat after being given wrong information about the time.
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nWyXb TIL that Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother who was born in 1991