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TIL that William Shatner’s role just before he started acting on Star Trek was in the 1966 horror movie Incubus, which was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto.

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epDNn TIL that one of the closest times mankind has been to nuclear war was in the 1950s when, among other things, US intelligence received reports of an identified flying object over Turkey- which was later identified as a wedge of swans
v19GK TIL the 'Fake Shemp' - using one actor to fill in for another - is now prohibited by Screen Actors Guild rules, as a result of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover over his replacement in Back to the Future II
E1J4P TIL of the Heckler's Veto, where a speaker's freedom of speech is allowed to be impeded on if people who are listening are audibly overpowering the speaker.
Y7Ker TIL that even though he won the Academy Awards for best picture and director for "Gandhi" in 1982, Richard Attenborough was disappointed and openly claimed that Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" should have won. Spielberg cast him as John Hammond in "Jurassic Park" to thank him.
l9k7 TIL that due to a clerical error, the state of Missouri assumed that a man named Mike Anderson was in prison, serving his 13-year sentence for armed robbery. It’s only when they began preparing for his release did they realise that law-enforcement had forgotten to take him to jail.