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TIL Martin Scorsese, after requiring 19 takes to get a scene right in his film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, praised one particular 6-year-old extra. “She ate 19 ice cream cones and didn’t get sick, that girl’s gonna be an actress!” That girl was future Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern.

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4d86 TIL in the 2004 exercise between the US and the Indian Air Forces, Indian pilots notched up an astounding 9:1 kill ratio. U.S. pilots said that the Indian pilots showed innovation and flexibility in their tactics. and that they came into the exercise underrating the training and tactics of the IAF
4XNXw TIL that the original iphone prototypes were so secretive that the engineers had their own OS called the 'skankphone' only a few engineers got to see the real OS and worked together debugging code through a curtain.
nepNd TIL of the existence of eyebrow wigs and temporary eyebrow tattoos, for those who, for whatever reason, have lost their brows and want to look and feel more "normal".
7rZaX TIL of the 21 US ships reported damaged or sunk in the Pearl Harbor attack, all but 3 were repaired and returned to service. One of those three was a pre-WWI dreadnought that the US used for target practice.
m1Evx TIL of the "Freezer Bowl", the coldest NFL game in history between the Cincinnati Bengals and the visiting San Diego Chargers. The wind was nearly 30 MPH, the official temperature was -9°F, and the wind chill factor put the temp at -59°. The Bengals won and went to the Super Bowl