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TIL Paul Bettany was in blue makeup for many scenes in WandaVision because red makeup appeared too dark in black and white.

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69yB7 TIL of Venture Smith, the son of an African prince who was enslaved at ten years old. He eventually purchased bought he and his family's freedom and eventually owned a 130 acre farm.
xoAg TIL Oscar the cat, a stray taken in by a Rhode Island nursing home, seems to only visit patients shortly before death. He is so accurate in predicting peoples death, that their families are notified as soon as he gets cozy to a patient.
AdX7 TIL that during the 2015 Paris attacks the German National Soccer Team couldn’t go back to their hotel and as a result had to sleep on mattresses and as a sign of solidarity the French National Team slept with them in the stadium.
gMY99 TIL that Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős worked on mathematics for up to 20 hours a day and at the end of his life had output a mathematical yield of roughly 1,500 papers, an order of magnitude higher than his most prolific and famous colleagues. Of these roughly 1,500 papers 507 were co-written.
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