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TIL John Landis, director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, violated child labor laws when he hired 6-year-old and 7-year-old actors for the Twilight Zone movie. Both of the child actors, along with actor Vic Morrow, were decapitated by helicopter blades when a scene they were filming went wrong.

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