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TIL actor Peter Sellers accidentally saw The Producers. He then demanded it get a wide release and took out full-page ads telling everybody to see it.

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KYdga TIL: There is a wooden statue of Rambo from First Blood, in Hope, BC, Canada to commemorate the filming of the movie there.
78b7p TIL Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after brain surgery was performed on the wrong side of a patient's head three times in 2007. The state also ordered the hospital to develop a neurosurgery checklist that includes the location of the surgery
8M98 TIL that no one in Australia has died from a Spider bite since 1981
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