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TIL Lou Ferrigno still voices The Hulk in the two Avengers movies.

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YpaOB TIL that the wife of George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, won an Oscar in 1977 for Best Film Editing in Star Wars. To date, George Lucas has won zero Oscars.
6EGyw TIL that a rattlesnakes rattler is made from skin shed during molting. They start with one “button” (which is made of the same material as our fingernails), and add each time it molts.
BRVx TIL The reason they use a “Clapperboard” (the black board they clack at the begging of a movie scene) is to sync the audio and video together.
WkZ9X TIL the Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, had their own black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.
6ZkZ TIL that one of the main hypothesis explaining the massive dislike of clowns is the “uncanny valley effect”. The term depicts a valley of negative emotional response caused by things that look human but “aren’t quite there”