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TIL ‘The Grinch’ Makeup Artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Checked Into Therapy Because of Jim Carrey

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QLyX TIL it was no coincidence “Antz” was released a month before Disney/Pixar “A Bugs life”. Pixar had been working on Bugs Life for much longer. Antz was made by a former Disney employee who didn’t leave on good terms. He sped up the production admitting his intentions were to “Battle Disney”
OG647 TIL about Don Black, a white supremacist, member of the American Nazi Party, Grand Wizard of the KKK and founder of the neo-nazi, Holocaust denial, homophobic website Stormfront; he was arrested by the ATF in 1981 while attempting a naval invasion and armed overthrow of the government of Dominica
D19oj TIL the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic of 1954 was the result of mass delusion. When the media called attention to it people actually looked at their windshields and saw damage they had never noticed before.
jNMjp TIL Fidel Castro had a strange dairy obsession, and would craft elaborate schemes such as a "race of super cows" and tiny cows to keep as house pets. He even bred a cow that produced over 100 liters of milk in a day
6EvVJ TIL that despite it being common practice for casinos to ban card counters, a 1979 New Jersey Supreme Court decision banned all Atlantic City casinos from doing so, making them the only state in America where a casino is forbidden from throwing out skilled blackjack players.