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TIL that Billy Bob Thornton was really (really!) drunk for the Bad Santa mall scene

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Y7yd TIL: In 1770, British Parliament passed a law that made wearing makeup a crime akin to witchcraft. The reasoning behind the law was that men were enchanted by a false face, and they were due an annulment once they realized what their wives really looked like.
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R7lLa TIL Elizabeth Shoaf, 14, was abducted & held captive in an underground bunker for 10 days. To survive, she befriended her captor & outsmarted him to obtain his phone. She text her family & police were able to trace the number to a nearby phone line.
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