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TIL the Budget for the Makeup of Dallas Buyers Club was $250. The film would go on to win the oscar for Best Makeup.

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QN0GX TIL in the movie Raiders Of The Lost Ark Harrison Ford playing the Indiana Jones character in one now famous scene goes off script and shoots a swordsman because he had to go the toilet because he had a case of dysentery and the director chose to keep the scene.
v1GyL TIL Cathriona White forged the medical records saying Jim Carrey gave her STDs. When this came to light during the discovery of the court procedure, her family dropped the case.
nenPP TIL in 1973 when Marlon Brando won an Oscar for Best Actor, he boycotted the show and sent a Native American woman named Sacheen Littlefeather instead. She refused the Oscar on his behalf and made a speech about Hollywood’s mistreatment of Native Americans. She was booed.
WkMNA TIL of Norman Borlaug, a scientist who developed and promoted higher-yield wheat, started the Green Revolution, and may have saved over a billion lives through better agriculture.
GYGbG TIL during the 2003 NFL Season, the New England Patriots started the season with a 31-0 blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills and ended the season with a 31-0 shutout win against the Buffalo Bills