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TIL John Hughes wrote the script of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in just 6 days.

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XEWOr TIL in The Goonies the director Richard Donner didn't let the child actors see One-Eyed Willy's ship so they could have a genuine reaction. When they first saw the ship some of them started to swear. So they had to use the 2nd take in the final cut.
mkPp TIL Apache warriors could run as much as 80 miles a day. That’s equal to a little over 3 full marathons.
oBPDA TIL that in the live-action movie "Scooby-Doo: The Movie", Tim Curry was originally supposed to play Scooby. He read the script and declined the roll because Scrappy-Doo was going to be in the movie.
8LyL TIL When Henry Ford was shown newsreel footage of the Nazi concentration camps, he “was confronted with the atrocities which finally and unanswerable laid bare the bestiality of the prejudice to which he contributed, he collapsed with a stroke
N7r5e TIL: Blowing into a Nintendo game cartridge does not fix a game that won’t load by removing dust. The blowing is a placebo. It is the act of removing and reinserting the cartridge into the system that increases the chance of a good connection. Moisture in your breath may even damage your games.