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TIL that actor Tom Baker landed the part of the Fourth Doctor after Barry Letts (a producer on "Doctor Who") was impressed by Baker's performance as the main villain in the 1973 Ray Harryhausen film "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"

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77NL TIL barns were traditionally red because farmers mixed rust with their diy sealant mixture to resist fungus and moss, turning the mixture red
YOxZ TIL David Tennant was almost cast as Dr.Hannibal Lecter in NBC ¨Hannibal¨, the last two candidate being him and Mads Mikkelsen.
dDVlB TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
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ymWV TIL The reason pirates wore eye-patches was so that one eye was always used to the dark, making it easier to see quickly when going below deck.