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TIL Edgar Wright, the director of Hot Fuzz, used to work at the supermarket featured in the shootout in the film. Wright also has a brief cameo as an employee in an earlier scene.

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X0mND TIL Shirley Temple, the child Hollywood star, became an accomplished diplomat later in her life.
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