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R7gv6 TIL that Sister Act was originally intended as a vehicle for Bette Midler. When Whoopi Goldberg got the role, after Midler turned it down, the writer, Paul Rudnick, did not want to be associated with the film and was credited under a pseudonym.
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R7EM6 TIL that a woman who successfully underwent a lung transplant went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanut butter. Prior to her transplant she never had problems eating peanuts. She learned the 12 yr.old who had donated the lungs had had a peanut allergy, and had died from an anaphylactic shock.