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TIl In the Elizabethan era, sugar was very expensive and enjoyed by the wealthy, thus the wealthy were know to have bad teeth. Poorer people who couldn’t afford sugar would black out their own teeth to give the impression of wealth.

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Z8VMG TIL Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box" was influenced after Layne Staley had a dinner conversation on how veal was made from calves raised in small boxes. This eventually inspired him to write the lyrics about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.
xVPDk TIL while shooting the 1998 film "Twilight" Susan Sarandon was under the impression it was for equal pay, but the studio meant only for the men. Co-star Paul Newman stepped up and gave her part of his salary.
Y77j7 TIL the terms Latino/Latina came from the French word Amérique Latine. Coined by Napoleon III, it was used in an effort to imply cultural kinship to Mexico and justify French intervention as well as to combat the ever growing Anglo-Saxon presence in America.
kOR8W TIL American Humane, the organization which provides the "No animals were harmed" verification on Hollywood productions, was found to have colluded with studios to cover up major animal abuses on movie sets.
4klMg TIL that there’s a SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota, complete with recipe contests and a vocal quartet called the Spamettes, who only sing songs about SPAM. The town hosts a SPAM Jam, and the museum celebrates the canned meat’s global fame.