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TIL that actors with visible tattoos on screen often need release forms from the tattoo artists to feature their work in films.

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B9pd TIL: In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”.
6E0aJ TIL UCLA lost $18.9 million from college sports in 2019 alone. The university made $108.4 million off of college sports and spent $127.3 million.
a8MrN TIL that on December 7, 2012, hospital nurse Jacintha Saldanha took her own life, just three days after being deceived by a prank phone call orchestrated by two Australian radio DJs. The call was part of a radio stunt related to Prince William's pregnant wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales.
4XE4g TIL in 1933, US Steel, Remington Arms, J.P. Morgan, and Standard Oil joined the DuPont family in an attempt to overthrow FDR with a fascist military coup called the "Business Plot"
E1OPV TIL NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years. An Oregon-based company falsified aluminum certification tests for nearly two decades.