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TIL Princess Leia's look in the original "Star Wars" was inspired by a Mexican Revolutionary.

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v1ZKL TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.
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