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TIL that the opening scene of Zoolander (the awards ceremony) was actually filmed during the commercial breaks at the real-life 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.

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Ogg1 TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around. Until that time the colour was referred to as yellow-red and may be why red hair got its misnomer.
7EMZ TIL in a deleted scene from The Truman Show (1998), the show’s director described a plan to have a female actress seduce Truman into conceiving a child on air, then they’d create a parallel show to follow that child’s life.
w7x1 TIL when Disney were about to start making their own sequels to Pixar movies, Pixar’s John Lasseter said “It’s like you have these dear children and you have to give them up to be adopted by convicted child molesters.”
5dpn TIL a dog bit off his owner’s big toe because she could smell it was infected, and ended up saving his life
d8kPE TIL that Nichele Nichols recorded a disco version of the Star Trek original theme song. Oh my!