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TIL Dennis Farina started acting at 44

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m1EVM TIL that the actor who played Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies is the same actor who played Gimli in the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Trilogy
obPY TIL that the Sydney Opera House actually has terrible acoustics. Edo de Waart, the former chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, once threatened to boycott the building. There is a A$202 Million project to renovate and improve the acoustics.
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