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TIL that Gene Hackman was reluctant to star in Unforgiven (1992), as his daughters were upset with the amount of violent films he had been in. Eastwood nevertheless won him over.

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d8bpE TIL that actress Jan Stirling had airfare to fly to the US but found lingerie she liked, used the last of her money to buy it, trading in the airfare for a ticket on a steamship. Midway thru the voyage she learned that the airship she had been booked on, the Hindenburg, had been destroyed in a fire.
YrMd TIL movie theaters make almost no money from ticket sales and profit almost solely on concessions
ne09Y TIL before the title of "Help!" was decided on, the titles "Eight Arms To Hold You", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge", "The Day The Clowns Collapsed" and "High-Heeled Knickers" were under consideration.
yQA6a TIL of Susanne Ripton, a Jew who survived the holocaust as a child. In 1940, when she was 4, soldiers broke into her home in Paris. She was saved when a neighbour rushed in and said that she was her daughter. She spent years hiding. In 1969, she discovered her parents had been killed at Auschwitz.
WkbDo TIL that in 2013, an HIV-positive Colombian man was infected with cancer cells from his tapeworm