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TIL for Disney's Snow White, animators had difficulties adding the color red to Snow White's cheeks: "she looked like a clown with painted cheeks". That is until one of the ink-and-paint girls suggested they use real blush on the animation cells. Thus, every scene with Snow White has real makeup.

VMkBm TIL In honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Soviet Union named a crater on Venus after Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space but died in the disaster.
16ojP TIL that funnel web spider venom doesn't harm most non-primate mammals
Brmpe TIL According to the U.S. Census, as of 2018, there are 6 PR people for every journalist. Much of the change is attributed the 45% loss of newspaper employees from 2008 to 2017. Additionally the current median income of PR professions is $61,150 in comparison to journalists $46,270.
ANLO7 TIL: Medieval European cuisine used to be more complex and flavorful. However, once spice became cheap and readily available to the poor, the elites started taking spices out of European cooking as they didn't want to be associated with the poor. This trend had lasting effects on European cuisine.
PYJDJ TIL of Kim Han-Sol, North Korean heir apparent until 2001, when his father lost favor, and was assassinated by poison in 2017. In 2011 Han-Sol expressed distress and guilt over North Korean social conditions in social media. Targeted for assassination, his whereabouts has been unknown since 2017.