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TIL The blood on set for Sweeney Todd was coloured orange so it rendered correctly on the desaturated color film used.

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b6voN TIL Country Artist Trace Adkins, having accidentally cut it off himself, had doctors reattach his severed left pinkie finger at an angle that would permit him to continue using it for guitar playing.
N7AdP TIL about Kenny brack, a former Indy racing car driving who got into a crash & experiencing a declaration of 214g, holding the record for surving the highest G force experienced by a human. It also made his body 214 times Heavier for a fraction of second, weighing 15 tonnes.
BgVND TIL about Arver v. United States, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the Selective Service Act of 1917. The court held that, citing Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758), a just government has a duty to protect its citizens, which obligates those citizens to render miliary service.
ZNMY TIL the chainsaw was invented to be utilized during childbirth…
OOwX TIL in Quechua the word “behind"is the same word as"future”. The word"In front"is the same word as"Past". Due to this, their temporal interpretation of life is that humans are walking through life backwards. They can see their past, but the future is unknown & yet to be seen, thus it is behind them.