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vQX7 TIL when introducing the character Agamemnon in “Time Bandits”, Terry Gilliam’s script read “The Greek warrior removes his helmet, revealing himself to be none other than Sean Connery, or an actor of equal but cheaper stature.” He wrote it as a joke never expecting Connery to be in the movie.
Wk69Y TIL that months after the Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon blamed the media, establishment, partisans and the special prosecutor's staff for trying to take him down, and still had many supporters
5awr TIL that one of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first acting roles was playing an alien gladiator champion in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’
4np5 TIL Bonnie and Clyde were shot so many times that the undertaker had difficulty embalming the bodies because all of the fluid kept leaking out.
xK9B TIL That in the mid 80’s the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus surgically attached horns to goats skulls and billed them as “living unicorns”. When they came under fire from animal rights activist, their argument was “They magically appeared.”