Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
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The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.
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The police were called 91 times during the filming of the movie "Borat".
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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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In Ice Age, the drawings of characters during the end credit roll - and Sid's drawing of himself on a wall - were all done by the children of the animators.
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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