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nWoPB TIL that Mad Max (1979), originally filmed with Australian accent, was dubbed for the American audience
GNv5 TIL in 1982 drug dealers in California tried to synthesise heroine more cheaply, and accidentally created a substance that gave users late stage Parkinson’s disease in a matter of days
kem7 TIL that Woody Harrelson used the excuse “I was startled and thought he was a zombie” after punching a photographer in the face at an airport
ABlB TIL in the coconuts used as “horses” in Monty Python and the Holy Grail didn’t start out as a joke - they decided to use them because the film didn’t have the budget for actual horses.
PYmGL TIL In 1895, workers finished the largest achromatic refractor that would ever be created: the Yerkes telescope. George Ellery Hale, an American astronomer, convinced the Chicago tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes to finance the telescope