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TIL Walt Disney has won more Oscars than anyone else, 22 in total

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XE05X TIL that Henry VIII of England agreed to marry Anne of Cleves after seeing a portrait that he commissioned of her. After meeting in person, Henry realized she wasn't as attractive as the painting suggested and annulled the marriage. The portrait is now displayed in the Louvre.
8avNK TIL of the largest mass kidnapping in US history. A school bus driver and 26 children were abducted as part of a failed ransom plot in 1976. They were buried alive in the back of a moving van. The driver, with help from some of the older kids, managed to open a trapdoor and free everyone inside.
4kmL6 TIL "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve sampled the "Last Time" by The Rolling Stones and The Verve had to pay them 100% of the royalties.
j6LVE TIL - Henry Tandey was the second most highly decorated British private of the First World War and is most commonly remembered as the soldier who allegedly spared Adolf Hitler's life during the first world war.
4kEE5 TIL Sobekneferu is the earliest confirmed female Egyptian pharaoh, ca. 1800-1700 BC