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MePMb TIL Dan Aykroyd conceived of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for his initial script for Ghostbusters the movie. He created the character to show that "it seems harmless and puffy and cute—but given the right circumstances, everything can be turned black and become evil.”
N7jME TIL that before the Civil War, Christmas was not an official holiday in the United States
PYdne TIL that Jim Henson's puppeteers almost never broke character, no matter what happened
V4Zm TIL Hugo Weaving said of voicing Megatron in Transformers, “I had no knowledge of it. I didn’t care about it. I didn’t think about it. It was meaningless to me. I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean.”
8aeNK TIL of Barrack Busters, an improvised motar created by the IRA that fires propane tanks