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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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e0ZDD TIL, actress Nancy Morgan who had the role of Paula Powers in the 1977 film Grand Theft Auto got married to John Ritter that same year. 1977 was also the year that Three's Company debuted onto TV, since John Ritter had a role as Jack in that show.
wo6J7 TIL about Passage du Gois in France, a road that connects the mainland to Noirmoutier Island and gets submerged by water twice a day, during high tide, for around 4 hours!
YprgZ TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.
WaV4 TIL the Solar System could support 10 quadrillion human beings with the utilization of asteroid resources
ZQdD TIL German General Walther Wenck refused orders to reclaim Berlin from the Russians in 1945 and instead used the remains of his army to create a corridor to for civilians and soldier to flee to the Americans across the Elbe River