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TIL That Quentin Tarantino did a cameo as an Elvis impersonator on the Golden Girls and used the funds to make reservoir dogs

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w59J TIL blonde hair, colorful contact lenses, and wearing tape to pretend you had a nose job is in style for young Iranian women
ADmda TIL that the first Architect of the Capitol tried to reanimate George Washington’s corpse by freezing him in cold water and transfusing his blood with that of a lamb.
ZEoD TIL Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ up to 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is ‘American Made,’ it was made in an American prison.
wLreP TIL that the term “spook” was a popular slur for black people during WII. Its use was especially prevalent in the military. Nazi Germany’s Air Force was called the “Luftwaffe” so some people referred to the African-American Tuskegee Airmen as the “Spookwaffe”, including the pilots themselves.
kb61 TIL Martha Stewart stopped dating Anthony Hopkins after seeing The Silence of the Lambs because she was unable to not think of him as Hannibal Lecter