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TIL that the most expensive movie ever made was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It cost $378.5 million to make.

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ZpK0B TIL Neil Gaiman was hired to write the English translation of Princess Mononoke.
ANJpo TIL in 1984, Harvey Comics sued Columbia pictures due to the logo in Ghostbusters being too similar to that of Fatso from Casper the friendly Ghost. As a result of said Lawsuit, Fatso became a public domain character, and it’s likely that Casper is as well.
9ogM TIL The samurai scene in Kill Bill where The Bride fights against the Crazy 88 was so bloody that the MPAA wanted director Quentin Tarantino to cut it in order to maintain an R rating. To get around it, he altered the colors in the scene to black and white.
4XZjJ TIL the original Routemaster double-decker buses in London could carry over 60 people with a single 115 hp engine
b6Rw7 TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.