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TIL that 100 squirrels were trained over the course of 19 weeks for one scene in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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x6rnD TIL Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, started wrestling crocodiles at 9 years old to keep local boat ramps safe
dJE TIL The Star Wars kid is now a law student,and the president of nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving his hometowns heritage and culture.
EKmX TIL Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of the Half-Life computer game series, and has considered possibilities of directing a movie adaptation.
W7omX TIL Astronomer Edward Barnard discovered Amalthea, the fifth satellite of Jupiter, using an eyepiece that yielded 520x on the 36-inch Lick Observatory telescope. Barnard observed Saturn's moon at 2,600x at the highest but 1000x power is enough to show a disk
J184j TIL that Alonzo Clemons suffered brain damage as a child due to a fall, which left him permanently disabled but gave him a prodigious talent for sculpting: he just needs to see an animal for a few seconds to make a perfectly anatomically accurate sculpture of it with his bare hands.