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TIL that actors usually snort powdered lactose on set and if they’re lactose-intolerant, then vitamin B powder

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yPyX TIL that today is World Turtle Day. A day to bring attention to, increase knowledge of and respect for turtles and tortoises
6EO1W TIL that the graffiti artist who painted Facebook's office is now worth $200 million after taking stock options before Facebook's IPO instead of cash
dBNE TIL the original “Airplane!” script had the jive dudes speaking lines like “Mo fo, shi’ man, wha’ fo”. Actors Al White and Norman Gibbs carefully created their own language by researching books on African-American dialects and early jazz culture.
OPg7 TIL that in 1988 Timothy C. May coined the term ‘The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse’, referring to terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers and money launderers, which are brought up in order to justify the regulation of the internet.
VB5BZ TIL James Cameron voluntarily gave up his points (a percentage of the film's income) and salary for Titanic when its budget exceeded his original estimation to the studio (it went from $100-120m to $200m). He didn't want the studio execs to think he had lied to them in order to get the movie made.