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TIL when researchers removed eyebrows from pictures of familiar faces, it reduced the chances of recognition substantially, and significantly more than removing the eyes themselves.

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Y7mJZ TIL the average Broadway theatergoer earns $261,000 a year in household income.
d9L7 TIL Tony Bennet is a WW2 Veteran that narrowly escaped death and took part in liberation of a concentration camp. He eventually was demoted for dining with a black friend.
pYZ8G TIL when filming “Firstborn” (1984), 12-year-old Corey Haim complimented the acting performance of 41-year-old Peter Weller. Weller responded by throwing Haim up against a wall, and demanded Haim to never speak to him after a take. Haim said that he was left terrified by the experience.
E1Ow0 TIL that Stalin, while in his mid 30s, had an affair with a 13 year old girl and got her pregnant twice.
4XMjw TIL that during the Bengal famine of 1943, Canada, US, and Australia made offers to export wheat to India, but Winston Churchill said India has adequate stocks and instead diverted the food stocks to the Mediterranean to stock up for the Tunisia Campaign. Three million Indians died due to the famine