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TIL that when Steven Spielberg was to be awarded his honorary doctorate from USC’s Cinematic Arts school, he agreed to accept only if it was personally signed by the admissions officer who rejected him for an average “C” grade when he applied there as an aspiring film student. It was.

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ep7b6 TIL the tradition of sending holiday cards started because Henry Cole wanted “a convenient way for him to speak to his many friends and associates without having to draft long, personalized responses to each.”
a8PKL TIL The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest active astronomical observatories in the world, with its roots going back to 1582 The Jesuit astronomers have contributed to discoveries in many fields from the origins of our solar system to the structure of galaxies.
RWZj TIL of Norton I, the first Emperor of the United States. A benevolent ruler, Emperor Norton issued Proclamations disbanding Congress, forbidding conflicts between religions, and advocating the formation of a League of Nations. At his death in 1880, 30,000 people attended his funeral procession.
mxN9O TIL that Jourdan Anderson escaped slavery and was begged by his former master to return because he was suffering, so Anderson replied with the finest fuck you lettet ever written by man, without ever saying fuck you.
LKY0 TIL that days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division. This was the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II.