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TIL that Natalie Portman filmed scenes with full frontal nudity for 2004’s Closer, but the director, Mike Nichols, chose not to use the footage and deleted it from the final cut of the movie.

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mo6R TIL that the first country to ban foie gras on the grounds of cruelty was Nazi Germany.
ebW4 TIL that in 1567,Hans Steininger, the man said to have the longest beard in the world, died after he tripped over his beard and broke his neck running away from a fire. He usually bundled up his beard in a leather pouch, but that day he hadn’t.
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