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TIL that for her role of Amy in Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike gained and lost 13 lbs 3 times to play the character at different times in her life. She consumed hamburgers & malts to gain the weight & exercised with a professional boxer for up to 4 hours a day & ran 5 miles (in 42 minutes) to lose weight

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woy4J TIL that between the 1920s and the 1990s, around half a million US prisoners underwent state-sanctioned plastic surgery in attempts to rehabilitate repeat offenders based on the idea that appearance impacted the likelihood of reoffending.
9YZZ7 TIL that shadows can move even faster than the speed of light. This phenomenon is referred to as the speed of darkness.
EZvd TIL Ryan Stiles is a high school drop out
mxVxM TIL M'lady/Fedora guys is Jerry Messing. Before his internet stardom he was the child actor who played Pugsley in Addams Family Reunion as well as Gordon Crisp, the smelly kid in Freaks and Geeks.
PY8pV TIL of Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who survived 14 months lost at sea was sued for $1 million by the family of his crewmate, who accuse him of eating their relative in order to survive.