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todayilearned
Jul 19, 2020
TIL a reporter once asked Gene Roddenberry why Captain Picard was bald since “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century.” His response? “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”
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data desk
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patrick stewart
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star walk
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todayilearned
Jun 21, 2020
TIL Fran Drescher’s stalker changed how sitcoms were made. To stop him from sneaking into the studio audience of The Nanny, they began to cast the audience from extras. Good/loud laughers were picked in casting, making the show feel funnier to home audiences. This became an industry standard.
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todayilearned
Jun 20, 2020
TIL Danny DeVito did the voice of the Lorax in English, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
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todayilearned
Jun 11, 2020
TIL that in 1937, dancer Patricia Douglas was brutally assaulted at an MGM party. Instead of bartering her silence for a studio contract or cash, Douglas went public with her story and filed a landmark lawsuit. The studio covered up the crime and destroyed her life.
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todayilearned
Mar 23, 2020
Today I Learned that TMZ gets its name from the 'Thirty Mile Zone' around Hollywood which is considered 'local' and is all about union rules and money.
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todayilearned
Jan 23, 2020
TIL that Adam West and Frank Gorshin were once kicked out of an orgy because they stayed in their Batman characters during the orgy.
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todayilearned
Dec 29, 2019
TIL, during the production of "Reds", Warren Beatty explained to the extras what the film was about. After a lecture on the rights of the working man, the extras refused to return to work, saying that they felt exploited. Beatty agreed to increase their wages.
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todayilearned
Nov 10, 2019
TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.
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todayilearned
Sep 26, 2019
TIL Danny DeVito was an executive producer on "Pulp Fiction" and played a significant part in getting the movie made
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todayilearned
Sep 21, 2019
TIL Quinten Tarrentino at 16, lied about his age to get a job as an usher at the adult movie Theatre in Torrance, California stating however “I hated porno movies...it was the most ironic situation: I finally got a job at a movie theatre and it’s a place where I don’t want to watch the movies.”
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todayilearned
Sep 08, 2019
TIL about the Wilhelm Scream -- a stock sound effect that has been used in at least 416 films and TV series since 1951, and is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.
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todayilearned
May 19, 2019
TIL that when Koko the gorilla met William Shatner, she grabbed him by the balls.
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todayilearned
Apr 20, 2019
TIL Steve Carell used to be a mailman and during Christmas, he would write notes to kids who would send letters to Santa and put it in their mailboxes. The note read, "Your letter to Santa has been picked up by special reindeer courier."
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todayilearned
Apr 12, 2019
TIL Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash in 1967 aged 34. Her car hit a tractor, killing her instantly. After her death, the NHTSA recommended requiring an underride guard on all tractor-trailers. In America the underride guard is sometimes known as a "Mansfield bar".
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