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TIL Peter Jackson wrote a script for Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. In his version, Freddy had become so weak in the dream world that teenagers would take sleeping pills to go into the Dream World and mess with him.

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oRl9W TIL: It's called a Garter snake, not a 'Gardener' snake.
nevw7 TIL about Ivan; a silverback gorilla who was kept for over 27 yrs in a small, cement cage for public display in a mall in Tacoma, Wa.
ljpa TIL 1960s Argentina experienced a musical phenomenon similar to that of the British Invasion in the U.S. but with Uruguayan musical groups.
OG4w6 TIL with the exception of one who committed suicide, every spy Nazi Germany sent to Britain during WWII was converted to the British side, with many turning themselves in. They were used to dispell false information to the Germans about troop movements and V-2 missile accuracy.
x6B50 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.