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TIL that the multi-awarded movie "Dallas Buyer's Club"'s budget was so low they only had $250 set aside for makeup. The film's artists , Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews, were able to work with that, and the film's Makeup and Hair styling won an Oscar.

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1aQdW TIL Jesus was often depicted performing his miracles with a magic wand in early Christian art.
ANgkn TIL Darwin suffered a curious denial about his mother’s death, once writing in a condolence letter “never in my life having lost one near relation” and during a Scrabble-like game, when another player added ‘M’ to ‘OTHER’, he stared long at the board then cried: ‘There's no such word as M-OTHER!’.
woyJ1 TIL Queensrÿche chose the spelling ryche instead of reich to avoid association with nazism. Ryche is a middle english cognate of the German reich, and it means kingdom, realm, or empire
e8wL TIL that fracking results in millions of gallons of “flowback liquid” being pumped to the surface. The flowback liquid contains radioactive material, heavy metals, hydrocarbons and other toxins and is stored on site in pits, injected into underground wells or treated at an off-site facility.
j6wQp TIL that the Missouri River is the longest river in the US, beating the Mississippi by only 1 mile.