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TIL Mike Rowe was an opera singer. “I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls”

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X0JOR TIL that because the 1978 film Halloween was filmed in the spring, the crew placed artificial and recycled leaves on the ground, sidewalks, and/or streets to make it appear more like autumn. The leaves were raked up after each of the scenes and then sent to the next filming location.
Br9WW TIL that Jim Carrey's Grinch smile isn't prosthetic or CGI, he can actually contort his face that way.
XEJGj TIL About Derek Watkins, a trumpeter who played on every James Bond soundtrack since the first movie in 1961. He started being involved at the age of 17, and his last film was Skyfall in 2012, when he was 68.
R5Km8 TIL That the precursor to the CIA published a field manual for regular people in Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis at their regular jobs
14VD TIL that Patrick Stewart voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII, in the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Sean Bean voiced his son, Emperor Martin Septim.