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TIL that Despite being the highest-grossing movie of 1963, Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox and forced the studio to sell 300 acres of its backlot, which became modern-day Century City (in Los Angeles, California).

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