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TIL in 1980, "Batman" producer Michael Uslan saw a photo of Jack Nicholson from "The Shining" in the newspaper and he started drawing on it. Uslan turned Nicholson’s famous “Here’s Johnny!” face into the Joker. Eight years later, Jack Nicholson was cast as The Joker.

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