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TIL NFL great Jim Brown retired at only 29 while filming “The Dirty Dozen”

by whatilearned February 4, 2023, 5:39 pm

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TIL the “empty London” scenes in 28 Days Later were achieved by filming at dawn and simply asking people to stop walking through shots, as there was no room in the $8m budget to actually shut down any parts of the city.

by whatilearned January 29, 2023, 10:00 am

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TIL John Byner was originally cast as Mork from Ork on Happy Days, but found the premise ridiculous and quit days before filming, leading Robin Williams to be called in last minute

by whatilearned January 26, 2023, 7:47 pm

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TIL While filming Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975), Graham Chapman developed delirium tremens (DTs) from lack of alcohol on set. DTs can be fatal even with treatment and typically only affect habitual drinkers who consume 0.5L of liquor or 7-8 pints of beer daily for 10 years or more.

by whatilearned January 25, 2023, 4:43 pm

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TIL in 1996 Björk had a stalker who mailed her a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid, before filming his own suicide by shotgun. Police found the tape and intercepted the package before it arrived.

by whatilearned January 8, 2023, 1:18 pm

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TIL that whilst filming Oldboy (2003), Choi Min-sik prayed in between each of the four takes of the octopus scene because he is a vegetarian buddhist.

by whatilearned January 1, 2023, 9:01 am

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TIL that when the set of James Cameron’s Titanic was submerged during filming, the Grand Staircase dislodged and floated; supporting the uncomfirmed theory that the missing original staircase dislodged and floated away during the real sinking.

by whatilearned December 27, 2022, 3:48 am

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TIL while filming the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), the original plan for the ending was to have the characters sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” It was later changed to “Aude Lang Syne.”

by whatilearned December 25, 2022, 12:37 am

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TIL the last shot of Terminator where Sarah drives her jeep into a storm was done without a filming permit. James Cameron (who was 29 at the time) told a cop who spotted him that he was a UCLA student.

by whatilearned December 20, 2022, 12:31 pm

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TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie “Genesis II” identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.

by whatilearned December 13, 2022, 11:05 pm

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TIL “Clyde” the orangutan in Clint Eastwood’s film “Every Which Way But Loose” was frequently beaten by his trainer and died of a cerebral hemorrhage near the end of filming for the sequel

by whatilearned November 12, 2022, 12:05 am

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TIL that Basil Fawlty was based on a real hotel owner that John Cleese had met whilst filming Monty Python

by whatilearned October 20, 2022, 10:26 pm

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