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TIL Roger Ebert dated Oprah

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jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
9w4KX Today I learned that the Tiki Room at Disneyland was originally intended to be a restaurant, and was also the first fully air-conditioned building at Disneyland.
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