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TIL The set used for Amity Island in Jaws (1975) was later used as Cabot Cove on Murder She Wrote.

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j4Ma TIL when Jack Nicholson was asked for a comment immediately following Heath Ledger’s death, he replied: “Well, I warned him.”
4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture
8aEgZ TIL that China experienced an episode of mango hysteria in 1968. Upon receiving them as diplomatic gifts, Mao had them distributed across the country where songs, poems, rallies and altars were built in the mangoes’ honor. A dentist was even executed for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
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