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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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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John Hughes shot The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back to back to save money. He also used the same crew and sets, including the high school with the same posters on the walls.
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Two surfboards left behind during the filming of “Apocalypse Now” are what gave birth to the Filipino surfing community.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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