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TIL After Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” she was accused of being an Uncle Tom by the NAACP to which she responded that she would “rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one”.

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1aMk8 TIL of HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian, two partially damaged Royal Navy destroyers which, rather than scrapping both, were combined to make HMS Zubian.
wMp6 TIL Sylvester Stallone hated the first 3.5 hour cut of “Rambo: First Blood Part I” so much, that it made him and his agent sick. He wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking it was a career killer. Ultimately, a heavily re-edited 93 minute cut was sent for theatrical release.
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wRDo TIL that the Leo DiCaprio film “Wolf of Wall Street” that immortalised the life of corrupt wall street traders was largely financed by money stolen by corrupt financial traders.
knQm TIL if you wanted to recreate the entire LEGO movie, you would need 15,080,330 LEGO pieces.