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TIL there's a digital SPFX programme named 'Kierasil' that is used for skin touch ups, named after Keira Knightly who was the actress the SPFX company invented it for.

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loxMr TIL that a 1996 federal law allows restaurants to donate leftover food without getting sued, and that nobody has ever filed a lawsuit against a restaurant over donated leftovers
vd08 TIL we call the animal a cow because the herdsmen were English, but the meat beef because chefs were often French and beef is similar to the old French word for a cow. The same is true for pig/pork, and sheep/mutton.
x6N7B TIL that the International Olympic Committee is in cahoots with WADA to hide Chinese doping scandals
AwMg TIL Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by Alien, Predator and Terminator.
XEnJE TIL of Andrew Mellon's "scientific taxation" policy: during the 1920s, the U.S. government paradoxically increased its tax receipts by $300 million after cutting taxes to zero for all but the wealthiest 2% — and then reducing their taxes, too.