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TIL that a complaint among test audiences for the film Good Night, and Good Luck, was that the actor playing Joseph McCarthy was too over the top and wasn’t believable, not realizing that the film used actual archive footage of McCarthy himself.

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kJG4 TIL that in 2002 the admission price for a Disneyland ticket was $45. Today it’s $87.