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TIL During filming of "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) the Dutch authorities would only shut down Nijmegen Bridge to film for 1 hour during a Sunday. The crew had to get the footage in that hour or else pay $125,000 a day to keep Robert Redford on set; hence it became known as the "Million Dollar Hour".

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AJ6n TIL Kent made the film The Babadook with the intent of addressing the fear of going mad during motherhood, “Now, I’m not saying we all want to go and kill our kids, but a lot of women struggle. And it is a very taboo subject, to say that motherhood is anything but a perfect experience for women.”
9YR5G TIL that, before becoming an actor, Joe Pesci (under the name "Joe Ritchie") recorded an album called "Little Joe Sure Can Sing!", where he covered various popular songs
BrYpx TIL about the deforestation and "wood mafia" of Romania. Every year, 38 million cubic meters of wood is destroyed, of which half of the harvest is illegal.
W7kbL TIL there was U.S. federal judge named Wesley Brown who continued to serve at the age of 104
nByd TIL that in 1945, 900 Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat through 10 miles of mangrove swamp, during which hundreds were to be eaten by the thousands of saltwater crocodiles lying wait, in what is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the “Worst crocodile disaster in the world”.