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TIL that the Film Score for Star Wars was Heavily Inspired By "Gustav Holst - The Planets" from 1918

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awdwo TIL After Margaret Schilling went missing in the Athens Lunatic Asylum, her body was found one month later in a locked abandoned part of the hospital. The gruesome stain on the floor can still be seem today and the mystery surrounding her death has never been solved
9wxvm TIL Musician Harry Nilsson, whose work took him away from home often, let friends and fellow musicians stay at his London apartment while he was on the road. Cass Elliott of The Mamas & The Papas died there on July 29, 1974. Four years later Keith Moon of The Who would die in the very same room.
4Xm4N TIL Several famous actors were decorated during WWII. Henry Fonda won a Bronze Star in the Pacific, Walter Matthau was awarded six battle stars while serving on a B-17. Christopher Lee was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and also won a number of awards.
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xV4O1 TIL that John Williams, the legend film composer (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) had problems with the musical timings in E.T.’s BMX chase scene. Steven Spielberg told him to record the music just as he wanted, he then edited the chase sequence around Willams’s Oscar winning soundtrack.