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TIL Walt Disney’s father was unimpressed when his son took him on a tour of his new film studio until Walt pointed out that it could be converted into a hospital if his animation business fails

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RGd9 TIL the stunt coordinator of Deliverance felt a canoe scene with a dummy in it looked too phony. After reshooting the scene with himself in the canoe, Burt Reynolds, coughing up water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”
00n1 TIL Elvis Presley did not write the song Hound Dog. The original song was performed by an artist called Big Mama Thornton
ZlO4 TIL After just finishing film school, two students wanted to make a film but could only afford one room. They challenged themselves to make a film that only occured in one room and later released it as “Saw.”
wokJ6 TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station.
rRR61 TIL older parents are more likely to have daughters, which may partially explain why more women go to college.