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TIL that the movie Scarface has won NO awards and has even been nominated for a Razzie.

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OroY TIL 1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.”
PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.
9BlX TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
69OvX TIL the White Beaches, a stretch of sandy coastline located in Tuscany. The unusual color of the sand is the result of years of processing and discharge of calcium carbonate by a chemical plant located about a kilometer from the coast. Due to that, they are among the most polluted beaches in Italy
4QbX TIL that the man who led the attack on Pearl Harbor became a Christian evangelist after the war and settled in the US