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TIL Christopher Nolan planned a Howard Hughes biographical film starring Jim Carrey, but it was tabled when he learned that Martin Scorsese was making The Aviator. The project he worked on the same year instead? Batman Begins!

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aBNZ TIL that Switzerland shot down both Allied and Axis aircraft during WWII
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