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TIL Mars (the owner of M&M’s) rejected a product placement deal in a film (E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial) about a boy who befriends an alien by luring him with candy, but Reese’s Pieces ( owned by Hershey’s) took a shot and and sales shot up 65% in the first two weeks after the movie hit the theaters.

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k0P5 TIL in the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.”
8aaWP Short Answer: It Prevents Some Injuries But Causes Others
BgyKW TIL that Ron Jeremy played the part of a parody Mario in a porno The Super Hornio Brothers, and that Nintendo bought and own the rights.
WkLRo TIL that playing the didgeridoo has been clinically proven to help treat sleep apnea.
LBjP TIL the Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail features “Subtitles for People Who Don’t Like the Film”, consisting of lines taken from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, and a feature for the hard of hearing, where the menu is read aloud by Jones in a very loud voice.