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TIL Little Shop of Horrors (1960) directed by Roger Corman, was made in only 5 days. Three days of cast rehearsals, immediately followed by two days and one night of principal photography.

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rRWo1 TIL the word quarantine comes from the Venetian "quaranta" meaning 40, for the 40 days that ships were supposed to stay off the coast in Europe to prevent the spread of the black death in the 1300s
oX1W TIL of Russia’s 2,000 female snipers in WWII including Lyudmila Pavlichenko who had 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers
JMkB TIL during the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists from rich countries succeeded in shutting down sweatshops in Bangladesh, forcing thousands of children into prostitution, crime, and starvation.
5XNP TIL that comedian Patton Oswalt sent out a series of tweets on August 17 that came off as very offensive when read individually, but were totally fine when read together (picture in comments).
9ylB TIL early “Toy Story” scripts were so bad that production was halted. Steve Jobs kept work going with personal funding until a better script was ready. When production green-lit for $17M, Jobs demanded more funds from Disney, who refused until Pixar’s co-founder was able to compromise a new budget