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X6ak TIL after the “Cars” and “Planes” franchises, Disney is considering creating a neverending series with other marketable vehicles like “Boats”, “Trains” and more…
P1mGJ TIL In the Helen keller biopic Miracle Worker (1962), for the dining room battle scene, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke wore padding beneath their costumes to prevent serious bruising during the intense physical skirmish. This nine-minute sequence required three cameras and took five days to film.
nWMxB TIL that in 1969, the BBC aired a live-action sitcom called "The Gnomes of Dulwich," where the characters were all garden gnomes.
KOkwG TIL America's first recorded murderer was John Billington, an original Plymouth colonist, also a signatory of the Mayflower Compact. He shot a young man who had recently migrated to Plymouth. The motives behind the murder were never recorded so it is still unknown.
D1baV TIL that Confederate General Martin Green's last words disregarded the threat of enemy fire at the battle of Vicksburg: "A bullet has not yet been molded that will kill me". He would then be killed by a Union sharpshooter moments later...