Post * rwjo — Curious Curator

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TIL In Back to the Future the actress who played Jennifer couldn’t return for Part II due to her mother getting sick. This meant that the closing scene of Part I had to be re-shot with the new actress. They managed to re-film it with a near shot-for-shot match of the original.

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JYZkv TIL - Disney auditioned cars for the role of Herbie in the 1968 Love Bug film. Disney set up a casting call for cars, including Toyotas, a TVR, Volvos, an MG and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that elicited the crew to reach out and pet it.

p8k0Q TIL that the different designations for groups of birds (Parliament of Owls, Murder of Crows...) largely came from a book from Middle Ages called The Book of Saint Albania. The designations are largely unused by scientist and birdwatchers, but are meant to describe the birds’ characters.

Alga TIL that Jeffrey Jones, best known for playing principal Edward Rooney in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ has been arrested on multiple occasions for employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexual photos and subsequently failing to update his sex offender registration

JxeQ TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John Paul II four times but didn’t kill him. After the Pope recovered, he visited the assassin in prison forgave him. The assassin was pardoned at the Pope’s request and 33 years after his crime, he visited Vatican City and laid flowers on the Pope’s tomb.

wLLkJ TIL of Jean O'Hara, a prostitute that made a fortune during WWII in Hawaii, her book about it resulted in brothels being shutdown in Hawaii.