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TIL Mila Kunis was born in Ukraine and moved to this country not speaking any English. At age 14 she started playing Jackie Burkhart, lying about her age (the producers asked if if she was turning 18 and she simply said yes not indicating exactly when).

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7rKDr TIL Botox is derived from botulism. “Sausage poison” is what Justinus Kerner called the pathogen in the 1820s; he had observed the paralytic effects after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people, six died. Decades later, named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.
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