Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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