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TIL in the film Tomorrow Is Forever, child actress Natalie Wood was unable to cry on cue, until her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her to ensure she would sob. Her co-star, Orson Welles, called Wood a born professional, "so good, she was terrifying."

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J1vV TIL - Josh Wolf served 226 days in prison, longer than any other journalist in U.S. history has served for protecting source materials.
1yj7 TIL that Jimmy Carter made the American microbew industry possible by legalizing the selling of malt, hops, and yeast to home brewers for the first time since Prohibition
6E0gW TIL that the first large scale human trial for the birth control pill was conducted on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s. These women were unknowingly participating in the clinical trial and deaths of participants were not investigated.
9gRm TIL:When Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2005 he joked that he did not get a medal at this ceremony either (A jab at the ending of A New hope)
dDZaE TIL: The Anchorage Parking Fairies, whose campaign lead to the dissolution of the city's parking authority