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TIL the white face paint worn by geisha's and samurai in ancient was lead based and lead can be detected in their bones.

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WdWY TIL all polar bears alive today can trace their ancestry to a single brown bear that lived in Ireland during the last Ice Age.
Wa1B TIL the Domino’s launched an ad campaign in 2009 where they pointed out that their pizza wasn’t the best it could be, and that they wanted another chance. As a result, the company had one of the biggest turnarounds in its industry in history.
yE1p TIL that Liam Neeson agreed to say any line that the writers of the Family Guy episode “Fighting Irish” wrote except one: “I’ve been a world-famous tough guy since 56”, which he altered on the basis that he was 55 when he filmed Taken.
awaEM TIL Tracy Chapman's big break came when Stevie Wonder couldn't find a disk at a Nelson Mandela birthday tribute show in London
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