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Audrey Hepburn, a childhood ballet prodigy, was left too weak to dance after five years of malnutrition during German occupation in World War II, leading her to pursue acting.
Warner Bros. wanted to cut the opening credits from the Watchmen script, so Zack Snyder secretly filmed them without a script, hoping the studio would retain them after viewing the footage. They did.
The English sweating sickness was a mysterious illness that struck England and parts of Europe in brief epidemics during the 15th and 16th centuries. Symptoms appeared suddenly, with victims either dying or recovering within 24 hours.
Between 1230 and 1561, many English towns had a street called "Gropecu*t Lane," named for the prostitution occurring there. Over time, many of these streets were renamed "Grape Lane."
Leonard Nimoy based the "Vulcan salute" on a traditional priestly blessing he saw as a child when his grandfather took him to an Orthodox synagogue.
In Belgium's 2003 elections, an unexpected anomaly occurred when a candidate received 4,096 extra votes. Investigators attributed it to a cosmic ray striking the computer system, causing a bit flip, which altered a binary digit and led to a computational error.
In 1610, Opossunoquonuske, a female chieftain of the Powhatan Confederacy, used "feminine guile" to lure 14 English settlers to a feast, convincing them to leave their weapons on their boat. Her warriors ambushed them, killing 13; only one survived.
Despite being introduced in 1979, laser sights only gained widespread popularity after Arnold Schwarzenegger prominently used one in The Terminator.
Following Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup, Pornhub had to request users to stop uploading match highlights to the site.
Years after illegally joining the Marines at 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and shielded his team from two grenades. He survived, earning the Medal of Honor at 17. He also served as a paratrooper from 1961-65 to conquer his fear of heights and once survived a training jump where both parachutes failed, falling 3,500 feet unscathed.
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