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TIL that while making the film ‘Armageddon’, about oil drillers being trained as astronauts to save Earth, star Ben Affleck pointed out to director Michael Bay that it would be easier to train astronauts to become oil drillers. Bay told Affleck to “shut the &(* up”.

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