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TIL that Disney passed on the script of "Back to the Future", saying the idea of a mother falling in love with her son was contrary to the company's longtime traditional family-friendly image

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KYOaa TIL Movies made in France can access a tax rebate (worth up to 40% of spend) if the movie passes a Cultural Test, which awards points if at least one main character is "of a nationality that cannot be determined". More points for sets being "symbolic of France".
kODBB TIL: for April fools Day 1957 the BBC programme panorama made a hoax video exploring the bountiful 'Spaghetti Harvest' that year
e7vE TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked to direct Lord of the Rings, but he declined because he felt that the story was unfilmable.
gMjr7 TIL Jim Crow was not a real person, but a character played by a white actor performing minstrel routines.
R7Q4j TIL about the "Pilgrim Army", a group of 15000 crusaders who were blown off course to the holy land and made to stop in Portugal where the King convinced them to help defeat the Moors in return for anything they could plunder, the majority elected to retire in Lisbon afterward.