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TIL that Steven Spielberg promised Tom Sizemore a role in Saving Private Ryan as long as he never failed a drug test while shooting. If he failed once, even on the last day, Spielberg promised to kick him out of the movie and reshoot all of his scenes with a new actor.

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R7KK9 TIL During the mid-1800's painters used a pigment called "Mummy Brown" that was actually made from powdered Egyptian mummies.
NXYwM TIL about documents of Human-Orca encounters when SeaWorld used to let people get close to them. One of these stories mentions how an orca supposedly 'reverse trained' the Human, using the methods Orca trainers trained Orcas with, to pet them near their blowhole, because the human was hesitating to.
dDw8E TIL the tiny landlocked African country of Lesotho has a ski resort called Afriski. It has slopes and lifts as high as 3000 meters (about 10,000 feet). In the summer there is hiking and mountain biking.
Bj0D TIL that Queen Elizabeth I had a vast spy network and one of her spies signed his reports with “007.” This was later used by Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond.
oBVW TIL Real estate agents used a business practice called “Blockbusting” in which they would buy a home in a white neighborhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighborhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighborhood.