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TIL M. Night Shyamalan was offered to direct Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, he dropped out to direct The Village instead. It was his second offer to direct Harry Potter films, the first one was The Philosopher's Stone, and the third one was The Goblet of Fire.

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8a47L TIL Miranda Cosgrove earned $180,000 per episode of iCarly, and in 2012 was listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest paid child actress
wBBM TIL an Italian street dog named Fido who was found injured and nursed back to health by a factory worker still returned to his owner’s bus stop to wait for him every day for 14 years after his owner had died.
VB0J0 TIL that the Michael Myers mask used in Halloween (1978) was originally a Star Trek Capt. Kirk mask. The film had a limited budget, so the production crew bought the cheapest mask they could find at a Halloween store.
M1Za TIL; Some Activists Accidentally Destroyed 15,000 year old cave paintings, mistaking them for “Graffiti”.
Bgdod TIL there's a sword in Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind which contains a reference to NBA player Elton Brand.