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TIL that Jim Carrey received CIA training on how to withstand torture in order to mentally survive the multiple 8.5 hours of makeup required for The Grinch.

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kJ6k5 TIL the book on which the movie "The Exorcist" is based was initially a failure. The author lucked out when he was invited as a last-minute guest on late night show, The Dick Cavett Show. Subsequently, the book hit The New York Times best-seller list and was picked up by Warner Bros for the movie.
Z8MXG TIL Australian child murderer, psychopath & pedophile Nicole Louise Pearce (born Paul Luckman) underwent gender-reassignment at state expense while incarcerated, was paroled in 1999 against the advice of majority professional opinion and repeatedly relocated to within close proximity of children
N7aRN TIL that a man wears a 200 pound turban that contains 645 meters (2116 feet) of fabric and takes 6.5-7 hours to tie
780xP TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap
woRP TIL when Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary (making reading and writing in Cherokee possible) it became the only time in recorded history that a member of a non-literate people independently created an effective writing system.