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TIL that during the Joker Pencil Trick scene in The Dark Knight was as dangerous as it looked. Charles Jarman, who played the Pencil Trick Thug, stated that he had to remove the pencil, in order to make it look realistic, before Joker (played by Heath Ledger) slammed his head on the table.

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