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TIL Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t wear any prosthetics during the filming of Everything Everywhere All At Once. She specifically decided against it in favor of showing her true body. "I want there to be no concealing of anything. I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11"

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P19aV TIL that the term trypophobia (fear or disgust of irregular circular patterns) was coined by a participant in an online forum in 2005
1N98 TIL that in 1881 an ice floe forced the Sharp’s Island Lighthouse off its foundations, after which it floated nearly five miles down the Chesapeake—with its keepers still inside—until it ran aground, allowing the men to escape unharmed.
xVDyb TIL psychiatrist Avicenna had a malnourished patient who believed he was a cow ready to be slaughtered. Avicenna, impersonating a butcher, came to kill him but said the cow was too lean and had to eat more. The patient ate more food which restored his health and cured the delusion.
jjWN TIL Shoichi Yokoi was among the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of WW2 in 1945, discovered in the jungles of Guam in January 1972, almost 28 years after US forces had regained control of the island in 1944.
e0yBJ TIL that in 1988, to demonstrate that channeling was a bogus practice, magician James Randi recruited José Alvarez, who pretended to channel a 2,000 year old spirit named Carlos, traveling the world and living like a celebrity. Alvarez continued the charade for years after 60 Minutes exposed them.