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TIL Jackie Chan shot 2900 retakes for just one scene.

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pYNVQ TIL that the actors in Alfred Hitcock’s, The Birds, the actors were really attacked by 3,200 trained birds.
x6VOw TIL there's a 3,200 year old Egyptian tablet with excuses of people who missed work
0eNR TIL 78-year-old Dashrath Manjhi in India spent 22 years carving a 1km road through rocky hills, using only a hammer and chisel, to allow people of his isolated village easy access to the nearest town doctor.
56GR TIL that according to legend, the Corgi was a gift from woodland faeries and their markings were caused by saddles and stirrups placed on their backs
4XVea TIL That the United States accidentally destroyed Britain's first satellite after detonating a nuclear bomb in orbit.