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TIL that green/blue screens were actually developed in the 1930s

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Oo8NY TIL that the role of 11 years old Moaning Myrtle; the toilet ghost in Harry Potter movies, was played by Shirley Henderson who was 45 years old
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epDO6 TIL that that platypus has no stomach
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