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TIL the richest independent film financier in the world is Steven Rales with a net worth of $11B. His most famous beneficiary is Wes Anderson. Rales began working with him on The Darjeeling Limited & has been a full-fledged producer on all of his major feature films since Moonrise Kingdom in 2012.

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rK0e TIL Charlie Chaplin was born 4 days before Hitler and his character, Tramp, has the same mustache as him. This and being named a Jew and placed on a hitlist by Nazis inspired his film, The Great Dictator, where in the last speech he is actually talking to the audience as himself, not a character
nW9MP TIL the Lost Deck technique for box girder bridges means the plywood decking placed on top of the girders is cast into the rebar and concrete of the highway surface. The plywood is never removed and "lost" in the process.
D16ZP TIL that John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is tall – 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), compared to the actors playing hobbits at around 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) so the filming was much easier because he had a perfect proportion to the hobbit actors
4kaw6 TIL that in France it is legal to marry a partner posthumously.
9onD TIL That the Pledge of Allegiance was a marketing tool to sell flags to US schools