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TIL that the Godzilla Franchise has the Guinness World Record for the longest continuously running movie franchise; its first installment in 1954 focused on the fears of a nuclear holocaust, with Godzilla's Tokyo rampage being filmed to mirror the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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