In Tunisia, you can book an overnight stay in Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home for only $10.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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