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TIL of the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall , her daughter Melanie Griffith and Noel's two sons. It has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" in which they used wild, untrained animals. Although no deaths occured, numerous serious injuries did.

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J1PPv TIL the screech we all associate with bald eagles is dubbed from another bird. This is because the noises a bald eagle makes is pretty lame in comparison.
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