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Today I learned Nicolas Cage turned down the lead role of Shrek because he didn’t want to be an ogre

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e0QND TIL: Disney's ''The Shadow King'' (2011) remains unreleased and half complete despite $50 million dollars spent on it's production by a team of animators, model-makers and puppeteers and Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Sellick. Disney said it was 'Too dark and unsettling to make toys of'
LQrOQ TIL 'previous translations (of Mein Kamf) had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a "cultured man" with "coherent and grammatically correct reasoning"'
ZbjR TIL after Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command in the Korean War in 1951, Emperor Hirohito visited him to offer his condolences. It was the first time a Japanese Emperor had ever visited a foreigner who was not a diplomat or royalty
PYDvn TIL before lending his song In Your Eyes to the film Say Anything, Peter Gabriel asked to see the movie. He was sent a copy, and Gabriel approved the use of his song, but said he was uneasy about the main character’s overdose at the end; the studio had mistakenly sent him the film Wired instead.
WJv8 TIL that Woody Harrelson is a vegan, and so on the set for Zombieland he didn’t actually eat any regular twinkies. Instead, a special vegan version from cornflour was made.