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TIL actor Telly Savalas won a spelling bee in 1934 but due to an oversight, he did not receive his prize until 1991, when it was awarded to him by the Boston Harold and the school principal

by whatilearned May 30, 2023, 5:43 am

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What villain is so sympathetic or relatable you actually hoped they won?

by QuestionGuy May 27, 2023, 1:35 am

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TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 11:23 am

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TIL from 1929 to 1931 three consecutive Canadian born women won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. It was nearly 90 years before another Canadian man or woman won the top Oscar.

by whatilearned May 25, 2023, 4:27 am

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TIL that when Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1993 Indy 500 he chugged orange juice instead of the traditional milk, earning the enmity of the fans. Fittipaldi owned an orange grove in his native Brazil and wanted to promote the product.

by whatilearned May 24, 2023, 4:20 pm

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TIL J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 of his students win a Nobel prize in chemistry. Additionally, his son also won a Nobel prize in physics.

by whatilearned May 23, 2023, 9:14 pm

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If you won $1,000,000, what would be the first thing you would spend it on?

by QuestionGuy May 16, 2023, 9:03 pm

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TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 8:55 pm

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If you won a million dollars what would be the 1st hobby you would try now that it’s affordable?

by QuestionGuy May 16, 2023, 3:15 am

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TIL In 1973 Fedex was about to go bankrupt when the CEO took the company’s last $5k to Vegas, won $27k, and paid their fuel bill. They were then able to secure more funding, and became profitable by 1976.

by whatilearned May 15, 2023, 7:00 pm

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What would your country and your life be like if the Germans won WW2?

by QuestionGuy May 15, 2023, 4:14 pm

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Why hasn’t Russian won the war against Ukraine already if they are the 2nd biggest military force in the world and have approximately 16 times the force of Ukraine? Shouldn’t they have steamrolled over Ukraine already?

by QuestionGuy May 14, 2023, 6:34 am

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