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oRW6W TIL Disney producers once dumped a bunch of lemmings off a cliff to fake footage of their “mass suicide” for a nature documentary. The documentary won an Academy Award.
Bg61K TIL In 1964, Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa for breaking apartheid rules. She said she would only perform to racially-mixed audiences but the authorities didn't approve. She was forced to leave the country before she had finished her tour.
NB91 TIL Matt Smith was almost cast as Doctor Watson in Sherlock, because Martin Freeman was so grumpy in his audition
eAgk TIL that the WWII British code breakers had discovered the preparations for the German invasion of the USSR, but, although this information was passed to the Soviet government, Stalin refused to believe it.
KOlL9 TIL the first vending machine was invented in Ancient Egypt in 215 BCE and sold holy water. It worked by the use of levers meaning a coin would open a tap, letting water out.