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5rGD TIL Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had a sequel, but the author hated the first movie so much that he refused to have a film version produced.
r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”
PYpgw TIL Frontman Alice Cooper once lost a 12-foot boa named Yvonne in a hotel room in Knoxville, Tennessee. The snake reappeared two weeks later, having crawled into the sewer system via a hotel room toilet.
njvo TIL The Director of The Truman Show (Peter Weir)wanted to have a video camera installed in every theater where the movie was shown. At one point, the projectionist would cut to the live footage of the audience, then back to the movie.
Brdnr TIL that Elvis was quite gifted in the martial arts. He reached the level of First Degree Black Belt and one of his instructors instructors was quoted saying “In martial arts, he wasn’t Elvis, The Entertainer. He was Elvis, The Black Belt, with 15 years’ experience”