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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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NXbKJ TIL that it's possible to to be libel-proof on the basis that your documented behavior has been so awful you're legally foreclosed from suing anyone for what they write about you. In the U.S. it's informally named the Dykstra defense.
1apdd TIL 'Weird Al' Yankovic recorded a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," entitled "Perform This Way," and all of the proceeds from the parody and its music video were donated to the Human Rights Campaign, to support the human rights themes of the original song.
9YQpX TIL In their most productive week, the Pixar team animated 3½ minutes of the film Toy Story (1995)
5YPKP TIL that Robert Downey Jr. only got clean because his girlfriend (now wife) saw him on drugs, then gave him an ultimatum of quitting or losing her. He stopped at a Burger King on the coast and threw his drugs in the ocean. She is now known around Hollywood as "the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey."
woYgE TIL about Níðhöggr, a dragon who gnaws at the root of the world tree, Yggdrasil. Níðhöggr's name refers to its role as a monster who chewed the corpses of the inhabitants of Náströnd: those guilty of murder, adultery, and oath-breaking.