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TIL that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone purchased, renovated, and are reopening Casa Bonita in Denver.

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Pk5L TIL that the producers of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (filmed in 1971 in Munich, Germany) had trouble finding dwarfs–any adult dwarfs at all– for the roles of the Oompa-Loompas. This was because the Nazis had killed so many of them 25 years earlier.