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TIL that Egyptians of both sexes wore makeup.

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R7MA7 TIL Taylor Swift was born into alot of money.. Her father is "a descendant of three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, which is where Taylor Swift first signed.
W7XN9 TIL Pinkpop is the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world.
6EQym TIL Paro Airport in Bhutan is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified enough to land there. (Pilots maneuver between mountains, fly within feet of houses, and land on a narrow, 6,500-foot runway.)
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
nejrb TIL that Yakuza gangs in Japan hold public press conferences to announce changes in gang policies and news.