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TIL they had a swear jar on the set of My Girl for when Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd or Howard Zieff would curse. The ‘f’ word was $10 and the ‘s’ word was $5, which Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky would split. At the end, Jamie owed about $200 each, Dan about $50 each and Howard about $60 each.

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