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TIL Bono wears glasses all the time because he has glaucoma

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nY9b TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.
KOQjR 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.
awMDb TIL that in the whole history of submarine warfare, there was only ever one underwater submarine battle. That battle was also the only time a submerged submarine sunk another submerged submarine.
b9gO9 TIL In the Heat of the Night was filmed in Illinois because Sydney Poitier wouldn't go south of the Mason-Dixon line (6:40)
1NGO TIL Jim Varney’s character, Ernest, was used in more than a reported 4,000 local commercials, sometimes 25 shot per day. Between 1987 and 1990, four indie Ernest movies generated $100 million.