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TIL that John Caglione Jr, the makeup artist responsible for Heath Ledgers Joker, had Ledger scrunch and contort his face as he applied the makeup. This had the affect of creating lines and creases in the paint to make it look like the character had been wearing his makeup for days.

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DGRg TIL in 2008 four Scientologists held a woman captive for 6 weeks for ‘Introspection Rundown’, a Church treatment for mental health issues. Police rescuers found her traumatized, semi-nude in a room full of trash. Despite arrests, there’s no indication the Scientologists were convicted on any charges
JPm4 TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, the civil war general involved in the early Ku Klux Klan, had a total of 29 horses shot out from under him during the war. He himself was shot four times, and he defeated over 30 Union soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
RBL6 TIL Alexander the Great held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.
WmLL TIL Boris Nemtsov, a former physicist and liberal Russian politician who was instrumental in the introduction of capitalism following the collapse of the USSR, was shot four times in the back and died on a Moscow bridge in 2015.
AD6wd TIL in 1913 Bulgaria went to war against its own allies from the First Balkans War, facing off against a combined strength double its own. Unsurprisingly, it failed.