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TIL Natalie Portman in an interview for Black Swan said ‘How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller?’ And the answer is a lesbian scene. Everyone wants to see that.”

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bwDE TIL NASA Astronaut Owen Garriott successfully pranked flight controllers by playing a recording of his wife whilst on SkyLab. There were no women on board the space station and was used to make it look like there was a stowaway.
b6kN9 TIL in 2007, Steve Way weighed over 100kg, smoked 20 cigarettes a day, and ate junk food regularly. To overcome his lifestyle-related health issues, he began taking running seriously. In 2008, he completed the London Marathon in under 3 hours, and in 2014, he set the British 100 km record.
BgX0y TIL that the modern all-star game spectacle the "Homerun Derby" began as an early days weekly TV show where the best players of the day would compete with many hundreds of dollars at stake.
ln5N TIL There is a naturally pink lake in Australia
rRJWe TIL in 1919, an English General, Reginald Dyer ordered a force of 50 soldiers to open fire on 10,000 Indians peacefully protesting the Rowlatt act in Amritsar, India. Thousands died by bullets and many jumped into wells and died. The House of Lords honoured him with the motto "Saviour of Punjab"