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• The original script was entitled “The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy.” They changed it when Paul Newman signed on in the role of Butch, requiring top billing. • The town of Woodstock, Illinois, placed a bronze plaque on the ground where the character Bill Murray repeatedly stood in the movie “Groundhog Day.” It says, “Bill Murray Stepped Here.” • In the zombie flick “I Am Legend” Will Smith grew so fond of his canine co-star, Abbey, that he tried to adopt her when filming was finished, but the dog’s trainer would not give her up. • In a climactic scene in the spaghetti western “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” a bridge is blown up. A misunderstanding led to the dynamite around the bridge being detonated before cameras were ready to film it, requiring the bridge be rebuilt and the whole thing to be shot again. • Sylvester Stallone wanted to make sure the boxing scenes looked real in “Rocky IV” so he instructed Dolph Lundgren to actually hit him. A punch to the chest left Stallone in intensive care for four days. • In the 1979 “Mad Max” film, funds were running low so director George Miller offered his own van for a crash scene. • On the set of the “Hunger Games” Jennifer Lawrence boasted to co-star Josh Hutcherson that she could kick all the way over his head. Instead, she gave him a concussion. • In “Gone Girl,” actor Ben Affleck refused to wear a New York Yankees ball cap for a scene, even going so far as to halt filming over the tiff. They finally compromised with him wearing a Mets cap instead. • In “Fight Club” director David Fincher asked a stunt man to fall down the stairs 12 times, and then used the very first take. ...continued

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• In the Italian version of “Star Wars” Darth Vadar’s name is changed to “Darth Fener” because “Vader” in Italian sounds too much like the word for “toilet.” • When members of the Irish Army Reserves were used as extras in “Braveheart” some scenes had to be re-shot as some soldiers were wearing wrist watches and sunglasses. • The word “man” is used 147 times in the film “The Big Lebowski” averaging 1.5 times per minute. The phrase “old sport” is said 55 times during “The Great Gatsby.” • One scene in “The Great Gatsby” required a downpour of rain. Because the weather forecast was for clear skies, the film crew purchased over 25,000 gallons of water from a local dam, only to have it pour down rain for the next three days. • While “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” was being shot in the Bahamas in 2006, Hurricane Wilma interrupted the schedule. The crew had to be evacuated. • “Forrest Gump” has more minutes of CGI screen time than “Jurassic Park.” • Filmmaker Sam Raimi, best known for directing “The Evil Dead” and a trilogy of Spiderman films, owns an Oldsmobile Delta 88. He considers the car to be lucky and makes sure that it shows up in all of his movies. In the film “The Quick and the Dead” which is set in the pre-automobile era of 1881, the vehicle is disguised as a wagon. • The iconic red stapler coveted by Milton in the 1999 film “Office Space” was created by the prop department. They needed a bright color, so they chose red. After the movie’s release, Swingline stapler company received thousands of requests for red staplers. Despite discontinuing the color years before, Swingline brought it back due to popular demand and the red stapler has been its best seller ever since.

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• The stare-down between Indy and the cobra was filmed using a sheet of glass between them. The cobra was fairly angry and spit venom on the glass. • The truck chase sequence took five weeks to film, for six minutes of screen time. • Many of the film’s more elaborate sets were roomsized scale miniatures. • In one scene, Satipo shoos away a few tarantulas from Indy’s back, causing Indy to make Satipo turn around to reveal his entire back covered in tarantulas. The tarantulas all stood still. When he asked why they weren’t moving, the tarantula wranglers informed Spielberg that all of the tarantulas were males so they weren’t acting aggressively. When they put a female on his back, the male tarantulas were thrown into a frenzy. • In the scene where they descend into the Well of Souls to uncover the Ark, there were about 2,000 snakes on set for the scene. Spielberg was unhappy because there were not enough snakes to cover the floor of the large chamber. They raided all the pet shops in London and Europe for more snakes, then added legless lizards as well, and padded that with hoses cut to look like snakes. In the end they had about 10,000 snakes. No word on what happened to the snakes following the filming. • The sound effects for ten thousand slithering snakes came from fingers running through a warm cheese casserole as well as wet sponges being dragged across the grip tape on a skateboard. The ghostly moans as the specters escape from the Ark are a combination of sea lion and dolphin cries. The sound of the lid being lifted off the Ark is actually the heavy ceramic top of a toilet tank being lifted off a toilet. The sound of the boulder rolling after Indy was actually the sound of a Honda Civic driving over gravel. • This was 1981’s highest grossing film by a wide margin. The film earned $389.9 million off an $18 million budget. The film was so popular that it spawned four sequels (so far).

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• Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero was experimenting in 1846. He dripped glycerin (derived from fats such as peanut oil) into a container of nitric and sulfuric acids. The result looked similar to olive oil. Sobreo put a single drop in a sealed test tube and held it over a flame. The test tube exploded, showering him with glass. Experiments showed that four molecules of this substance would transform into 35 molecules of gas within a millionth of a second, far more powerful than gunpowder. • However, this explosive very unstable, often spontaneously exploding. Sobrero called it “pyroglycerine” and considered it too volatile to have any practical use. • Alfred Nobel’s father made cannonballs, mortars, mines, and torpedoes for Russia during the Crimean War. One day in school young Alfred watched his instructor smear a single drop of a substance on an anvil. The teacher smacked the anvil with a hammer and it blew sky high. Alfred Nobel was convinced that the substance, now called nitroglycerine, could have a huge impact on his father’s business. He began experimenting, trying to find a way to stabilize the unstable substance. • The result was his invention of the blasting cap that could safely trigger the explosion of nitroglycerine using a fuse. • In 1864 scored his first big order, sent to help build the Suez Canal. Then one day 250 pounds of nitroglycerin stored in a shed near his lab blew up, killing five people including his brother. Alfred never found out what triggered the explosion. More explosions happened as nitroglycerine was being shipped around the world. He needed a stabilizer. • One day he poured some nitroglycerin into a pile of soft white clay called diatomaceous earth which was easily available at a river near his factory.

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• Diatomaceous earth is the fossilized remains of tiny aquatic organisms called diatoms. Today there are hundreds of applications for it. Nobel found the clay stabilized nitroglycerine, and could be molded. He named it dynamite, from the Greek word for “power” and patented it in 1867. • Dynamite was still very deadly, killing workers on a regular basis. One Swiss tunnel cost an average of 25 workers per mile. But the substance was so handy for blasting canals, blowing up mountains, and excavating mines that the human cost seemed part of the bargain. London’s first subway was made possible because of dynamite. There were many uses for it during wars as well. • Over time, sticks of dynamite “sweat” nitroglycerin, which can pool in the bottom of the storage container. Crystals form on the outside of the sticks, causing them to be susceptible to shock, friction, and temperature. The blasting cap did stabilize new dynamite, but old dynamite still remained unstable. Today, modern packaging techniques help eliminate this risk. Another inventor discovered the explosive called TNT which is far more stable than dynamite. • Eventually Alfred Nobel owned 93 factories in 21 countries, amassing a fortune equal to a quarter billion dollars today. • Alfred never married and never had children. He received 355 patents during his lifetime. • When another brother died of natural causes in 1888, a French newspaper mistakenly thought Alfred was dead and ran an obituary titled, “The Merchant of Death is Dead.” • Realizing how much hatred there was for him and his invention, and how much damage his invention had done, Alfred Nobel used his fortune to set up a prize to reward outstanding research in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, and economics: The Nobel Prize. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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