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TIL In a 2012 interview, Max Von Sydow claimed that Ingmar Bergman contacted him from beyond the grave to prove there was an afterlife.

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rRbdw TIL that, in order to make their 1958 doc “White Wilderness” more riveting, Disney filmed lemmings running around to give the impression that they were “migrating,” before throwing them into a river to drown. Disney then pieced together this footage, and thus the myth of lemming suicides was born.
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