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TIL that Patrick Stewart invented photo negative casting so he could play Othello as he wasn't allowed to wear blackface

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Kavw TIL That a friendly exchange between an American and Chinese player in the 1971 World Ping-Pong Championship prompted Mao Zedong to invite the American table-tennis to China, helping re-open Sino-American relations for the first time since the cold war.
N7GN8 TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't actually need that much water, but since it can thrive in such conditions, whereas weeds cannot, it's a natural protection against them.
5JBD TIL: Sean Connery was forced to wear a toupee during each of the Bond movies because he had started balding at the age of 21.
eDdn TIL that, on a goodwill visit to China, astronaut Jack Lousma showed a slide of “a beautiful, emerald-colored lake” he’d taken on the Shuttle, and got a surprising reaction. His interpreter explained later that it may have been a secret nuclear test site.
6E0bW TIL despite being hospitalized for E.Coli from eating at Chipotle, a 19-yr-old woman told her lawyer to ask for free Chipotle burrito coupons to be included in her settlement. Chipotle paid her an undisclosed sum of money plus gave her about 3 dozen free burrito coupons.