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TIL When Brian De Palma was forced to recut ‘Scarface’ to achieve a rating of R instead of X, he argued that the changes were so minor that no one would notice if he released the X-Rated version anyway. So that’s exactly what he did, and he was right: no one noticed.

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pekQ TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye to cancer at the age of three. He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.
womXJ TIL that a fake baby (doll) was used in the 2014 film American Sniper because the real baby that was supposed to play in the scene showed up with a fever and the second baby was a no show. In one media screening of the film, the audience laughed out loud at how artificial the doll appeared.
v1QZj TIL Robert Clive, a British Governor and General in India had a pet tortoise named Adwaita. Clive died in 1774. Adwaita died in 2006, 232 years later at the age of c.255. She was born before the 7 Years War, the founding of the USA and the French Revolution.
yVVaw TIL of Lauren Stratford (Wilson) who wrote a book claiming that she was in a Satanic cult in which she sacrificed her own child. After magazine reporters exposed her as never having a child, she changed her name and claimed to be a holocaust survivor, and was exposed again by the same magazine.
e0G8k TIL that the lowest point in Louisiana is found in its largest city, New Orleans, an area that lies at an elevation of 8 feet below sea level. The average elevation of the city lies at 1 to 2 feet below sea level mainly owing to subsidence as much of the city had been constructed on swamp lands.