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by CopyPastaArchive May 6, 2022, 5:05 am

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TIL Sparrow Force, a mostly Australian WW 2 unit, was stranded for 10 months on a Japanese-held island, fighting against 100-to-1 odds, with no radio for most of that time. A radio was improvised & sent, “Force intact. Still fighting. Badly need boots, quinine, money, and Tommy-gun ammunition.”

by whatilearned March 28, 2022, 10:31 pm

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TIL the story of the film “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” was improvised in a meeting. After the Italian director had a meeting with American movie executives, they asked him what film he had in mind, and in the span of a couple minutes, they quickly improvised the whole entire story of the film.

by whatilearned March 27, 2022, 7:30 pm

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TIL Billy Crystal and Robin Williams had an impromptu cameo on Friends. Crystal and Williams wandered in from a nearby set and improvised the opening scene for “The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion”.

by whatilearned November 14, 2021, 3:42 pm

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TIL that most of the dialogue in The Blair Witch Project was improvised. The cast were only given notes outlining the general direction of the narrative for that day’s filming.

by whatilearned October 4, 2021, 3:33 pm

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TIL Jackie Gleason improvised every time he said “Bang! Zoom!” in “The Honeymooners.” The line was never in any of the scripts.

by whatilearned August 12, 2021, 7:37 am

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TIL The Boer War Siege of Mafeking, the British held out with no artillery against a numerically superior force. They hid their numbers by shifting units around in the trenches, and dressing as women to do civilian work. They recommissioned century old guns and improvised an armored train.

by whatilearned August 9, 2021, 2:56 pm

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TIL that legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald forgot the words to “Mac the Knife” when performing it live in Berlin and completely improvised the lyrics. She won a Grammy for the performance.

by whatilearned June 14, 2021, 5:48 pm

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TIL that Marlon Brando improvised the orange peel scene in the Godfather Part 1. Coppola revealed: ““[Brando] said, ‘Here’s how I play with kids,’ and took an orange peel, cut it into pieces that looked like fangs and slipped them into his mouth.”

by whatilearned May 28, 2021, 4:35 pm

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TIL that Robert Downey Jr improvised the last line of Iron Man (2008) and changed the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe completely.

by whatilearned May 24, 2021, 8:42 am

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TIL King had used the phrase “I have a dream” in his speeches a year before the March on Washington, but his advisers disagreed with him using the same theme again. As he spoke that day, Mahalia Jackson prompted him to “tell them about the dream,” and he improvised the rest of the speech.

by whatilearned May 21, 2021, 3:38 pm

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TIL that in Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.

by whatilearned May 20, 2021, 7:40 pm

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