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TIL the movie 'Dallas Buyers Club' won an Oscar for best hair and makeup despite only having a $250 budget for it all.

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11JO TIL that a popular slang in French for having your period is “Les Anglais ont debarqué”, or, “The English have landed”.
m14pM TIL after centuries of use in America there was an international effort to ban sign language. Educators from Europe wanted to force the deaf to try to focus on oral communication instead. Linguists rejected American Sign Language as a language until William Stokoe proved it had grammar in the 1960s.
M7rGV TIL the actor who played Sea Bass in Dumb and Dumber (1994) is Hockey Hall of Famer and Boston Bruins president Cam Neely.
5YeL9 TIL the term ''Nickelodeon'' was used for early movie theaters that cost 5¢ to enter. An ''odeon'' was any building used for live entertainment in ancient Greece and Rome.
R0e9 TIL an intact steamboat from 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a farmers field. Thousands of artifacts were excavated and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.