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TIL It happened 3 times in history that a director won Best Director at the Oscars two years in a row. More interestingly, in each of these 3 occurances, one of the director's films also won Best Picture.

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XEpMP TIL in 2016, Alex Trebek, the host of "Jeopardy!", donated a total of $7.5 million to his Alma mater, University of Ottawa, to fund a Forum for Dialogue and a Speaker Series. The goal is to expose students to different world views through discussions and panels by speakers from around the world.
ADK7B TIL in WWII The Lockheed-Vega plant in Burbank was completely hidden below a blanket of Camouflage. It gave the appearance of a suburban area, rubber vehicles & quaint, peaceful neighborhoods, all painted on canvas to avoid bombing by the Japanese.
nW9mB TIL that Frank Sinatra is the artist with the most Grammy Album of the Year Nominations, at 8 nominations for that award. He was also the first artist to win the award twice, as well as first to win it three times. He also won 6 other Grammy awards and was nominated for 31 Grammys.
p8QoA TIL that Marvel Comics' Thanos and DC Comics' Darkseid, as well as sharing many other similarities, were created by the same person
WNMY TIL B.B King saved his Guitar from a burning building caused by a fight between two men. The men were fighting over a lady named Lucille and B.B King named his guitar after her as a reminder to never fight over a woman or run into burning buildings.