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TIL the "salt of the earth" dialogue in Blazing Saddles was considered a throwaway scene due to Clavon Little breaking character by laughing after Gene Wilder's comment, and Wilder looking towards the director after Little's break.

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v1rND TIL the most money ever paid for a screenplay was the script to the quickly forgotten 2006 Denzel Washington sci-fi thriller "Deja Vu". Terry Rossio and Bill Masilii sold the script for $5 million to Touchstone Pictures. The record price hasn't been broken yet by another screenplay as of 2021.
4XNjJ TIL Walt Disney's surviving family has largely been torn apart by a vicious legal battle over the $400 million Disney fortune, which led to newspapers calling them "not the happiest family on Earth."
oryo TIL when Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises he tried to ride them
Q8BX TIL A guy called Art Bell radio show claiming he worked for Area 51, moments later the radio transmitter mysteriously was shut down
69bjY TIL that a bird called the bar-tailed godwit is capable of flying for up to 11 days without a single break or meal. Apparently, the bird makes a 7,000 mile trip annually from the coast of Alaska to New Zealand