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TIL Jeff East, who portrays a young Clark Kent in the 1978 film 'Superman', wore a prosthetic nose to better emulate Chris Reeve.

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69Mj7 TIL that only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy, or 1 in 8 Americans.
EgPbV TIL where the "Did a dingo eat your baby?" joke from The Rugrats Movie came from. Based on a real case, the Evil Angels film has a scene where the murder-accused mother says, "The dingo took my baby!" It gets misquoted in a bunch of shows as "a dingo ate my baby."
D6xv TIL in Pompeii around 2000 years ago, “Beware Of The Dog” mosaics were used near the entrances to houses, much like modern day signs serving the same purpose.
BBDK TIL skin care products have virtually no effect on skin elasticity, since the protein elastin cannot penetrate the skin layer.
gMOm9 TIL deodorant was first sold in the 1900s and didn’t become popular until advertising agencies convinced consumers that body odor was bad.