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TIL: During the filming of "Doctor Dolittle" (1967), the crew faced many problems due to the over 1200 animals that were used. Some of them include: a goat eating the script, squirrels eating parts of the scenery, a parrot yelling "cut", and a giraffe stepping on his own genitals.

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