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TIL Johnny Cage was based upon actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. The creators of Mortal Kombat were hired to make a video game for Van Damme’s film Universal Soldier – when the deal fell through, they created MK and added Johnny Cage as a parody of the situation.

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9wMjX TIL There are two American actresses with the exact same name - Peyton List. One was born in 1986 and the other in 1998. Oddly, they were both in the same scene together on the soap opera As The World Turns. List (1986) was a regular on the show, while List (1998) was cast as an extra.
9MVM TIL that in Inception, if you take the first letters of the main characters’ names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito - they spell “Dreams”. If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”, which is what dreams do for a mind thief.
xVlab TIL that as the HMS Sheffield was sinking off the Falklands in 1982, the crew gathered round and started singing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' from Monty Python.
Rej7 TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare.”
N7B9e TIL After filming Who framed Rodger Rabbit, Bob Hoskins’ son didn’t speak to him for 2 weeks. When he finally found out why it was because his son couldn’t believe his dad had worked with Bugs Bunny and not introduced him.