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TIL that there are Wizard of Oz inspired shoes that actually guide you home when you click your heels together using a GPS system.

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XEy5j TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."
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