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TIL Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) was the first traditionally animated film and is one of the top-10 performers at the box office in North America and the highest-grossing animated film. Disney was awarded an honorary Oscar consisting of one normal-sized, plus seven mini statuettes.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 5:59 am

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TIL the first ally soldier to step onto the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day invasion was Leonard Treherne “Max” Schroeder Jr. He made it out alive and was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. He died in 2009 at the age of 90.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 8:48 pm

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TIL Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 2:04 pm

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My friend Ty came first in the Beijing marathon, but he wasn’t awarded the gold medal.

by cringeyjokesman August 10, 2022, 2:22 am

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TIL a pair of dogs were awarded UK’s Dickin Medal for guiding their owners and others to safety during the Twin Towers 9/11 attacks

by whatilearned August 9, 2022, 4:53 pm

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TIL about Odette Sansom Hallowes. An SOE agent during WWII, she was captured by the Gestapo, interrogated, tortured, and sentenced to death twice. She survived the war and was the first woman to be awarded the UK’s George Cross. In 1951 her GC was stolen, but later returned with an apology note.

by whatilearned August 7, 2022, 3:54 pm

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TIL Sigmund Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize for literature in 1930. Editor Adam Phillips asserts that Freud should be read like ‘any great novelist’. His case of Dora uses modern literary techniques and has been compared to the novels of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 6:58 am

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TIL The Flag of Malta features the George Cross because it was awarded to Malta by King George VI in 1942.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 11:05 am

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TIL That 1965 A patent was awarded for an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force”

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 5:45 pm

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TIL that pigeons got awarded medals for their service in WW2

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 3:32 pm

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TIL the first and last Australian torchbearers for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were Nova Peris & Cathy Freeman, who are both Aboriginal women, both Olympic gold medalists, both holders of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and were both previously awarded Young Australian of the Year.

by whatilearned July 6, 2022, 12:39 pm

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TIL in Southern Norway there’s the world’s largest underwater restaurant, with seating capacity for 100 guests, and it was also awarded one star in both the 2020/21 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 8:15 pm

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