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TIL In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the two German soldiers who were shot while surrendering durning the intro battle were actually speaking Czech. They were trying to explain that they were prisoners of war being forced to fight for the German army.

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5kBD TIL Fred Willard is the first (and so far, only) actor to appear as a live-action character in a Pixar movie. He plays Shelby Forthright, CEO of Buy and Large, in an archive video shown in the movie “WALL-E”.
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