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TIL that the producers of MASH wrote responses to hundreds of angry letters about the death of Henry Blake by explaining that a plane evacuating kids from Vietnam recently crashed with no survivors, asking if the viewers felt the same sorrow for the children as they did for a fictional man.

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vPkKD TIL nobody wanted to cast Arnold Schwarzenegger in a comedy. So he, along with Danny Devito & director Ivan Reitman, worked out a deal for Twins (1988) where they took no money upfront & got 40% of the backend collectively instead. He ended up earning over $40m, the most he ever made from a movie.
x6BXD TIL about the Dubbed Ghost Stories animation. Voice actors were told "do whatever it took to sell the show." Whoever got in the studio first set the tone/subject for the scene, which the other cast members had to follow. This produced a dub full of random fourth-wall-breaking jokes
5Y5Yr TIL the Canadian city of Medicine Hat became the first city to end homelessness by giving every person living on the streets a home with no strings attached. The strategy has meant associated declining costs in terms of crime and health care, and child welfare services
5VnyR TIL that (Spaghetti) Puttanesca means "in the style of a whore" or may also have originally been named, "I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan.”
ANg74 TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation