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TIL Anthony Hopkins, when asked what he loves best about making movies, answered: "I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day. Having somebody dab things on your face, I love that. Then you go out and say things and they pay you."

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JY59k TIL a model spotted his face on a jar of instant coffee 16 years after a photo shoot and won $15.6 million.
lo1V5 TIL that Detroit has the worst 911 response time in America, with police & EMS taking over an hour to show up. In 2013, despite numerous 911 calls, police arrived 90 minutes later to find Stacey Hightower had been murdered by an intruder. Her mother sued the city of Detroit, but they were bankrupt.
JYQ0k TIL that while Nashville has a beautiful recreation of the Parthenon according to how it would look to the Ancient Greeks, Memphis has the world’s tenth largest pyramid and they decided to put a Bass Pro Shop in it
XOyP TIL that One-third of the world’s smokers are Chinese, amounting to a smoking population greater than the entire population of the United States.
D0DY TIL there is a type of video photography that makes real life look like highly detailed miniatures. It’s called Tilt-Shift Photography, and it looks uncanny.