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TIL: A fortune cookie company once foretold the lottery, resulting in 110 winners

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Z8LkB TIL: While filming the 1925 Ben-Hur the director split Italian extras based on fascist or antifascist factions to make the fighting more realistic. Real swords were removed from the scene to prevent things from getting too out of hand
P1mDJ TIL that the idea for the original Final Destination (2000) film came after its co-writer, Jeffrey Reddick, read a story about a mother of a passenger who had a premonition for her daughter's flight, convincing her to switch flights and avoid her initial plane, which ended up crashing.
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