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TIL Jeff Bridges was four months old in his first film appearance

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wowjW TIL in 1929 in the first Academy Awards four films were nominated for best cinematography and George Barnes was cinematographer for three of them. He lost to the fourth film (Sunrise).
XEKOR TIL of the Dragon's Jaw Bridge, which became a symbol of resistance and legend of invincibility during the Vietnam War, being bombed by US forces 873 times and directly hit by hundreds of bombs and missiles in a span of seven years before finally being destroyed in 1972.
YpMKv TIL O.J. Simpson's father was a drag queen who died of AIDS in 1986.
VMWNZ TIL A Soviet scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov has attempted inseminate three female chimpanzees with human sperm as a part of his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid. The purpose of the project was to "prove" evolution and use it as propaganda against the Russian Orthodox Church.
X16D TIL coffee loses caffeine as it roasted, so a dark, “bold” cup of coffee actually has less caffeine than a lighter roast.