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The film industry is certainly known for its share of surprises. Whether we’re talking about obscure movie Easter eggs or the greatest behind-the-scenes facts, there are plenty of secrets that are not visible to the naked eye. And they would probably stay hidden if not for cinema aficionados who seek to know the ins and outs of the business.

Enter Film Facts, a Twitter account that’s purely dedicated to sharing details about all things cinema. From thoughts shared by the cast and crew to giant props and torturous makeup processes, this page is the place to learn the lesser-known facts about the craft.

Bored Panda has collected some of the best posts from this account, so make sure to check them out below and upvote the most interesting ones. Lights! Camera! Action!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's something a lot of people don't understand about cancer, is that it can last for YEARS. There are some forms that will carry a person off in a matter of months, but others that can be fought for years as Boseman had to. I've even heard of people battling with hemotological cancers for 15-20 years. And a person with these cancers has to go on with their life the whole time, raising children and earning a living, maybe even having the kind of success he did, while dealing with cancer the whole time. We just never know what other people are going through.

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It’s no surprise that there are so many cinema lovers who appreciate movies by watching them over and over again. Films have the magical power of pressing pause on our everyday problems and carrying us into distant worlds, full of the most interesting characters and fantastic scenarios. 

If you also consider yourself to be a true movie expert, you should definitely take a look at the Film Facts Twitter account. They take some of the best never-before-heard details about cinema and share them online with more than 251.6K of their followers. 

These tidbits of information are not only cool to know for your weekly trivia nights or for impressing your friends and family members. When you’re presented with a quick question, you need to be able to pull that information from your memory or try to connect the dots and think of a possible answer. Learning new things and being able to put them into context helps to keep your mind sharp and healthy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You forgot to mention she is a professional video editor, which makes a huge difference as a lot of experience and software knowledge is required for this job. From text it sounds like she never edited any film before

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Some people tend to dismiss learning new and interesting facts as a waste of time because today you can find any information you need with just a few Google searches. However, when a person is asked a trivia question that they know the answer to, they suddenly perk up and feel engaged. 

One of the reasons behind this is simply that answering a trivia question provides us with a thrill. “You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline

“I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bet the douchbags who sent competent talented people to work on Shrek to punish them were mad af, their little power trip turned against them

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For anyone who’s wondering if you have to be smart on many different levels to be good at answering quiz questions, Kounios said that people aren’t necessarily better at trivia games just because they’re more educated. “Some people soak up facts,” he continued. “Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning.”

“In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in,” the professor added. “So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history.”

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i think i've found my new hero :D 19 ice cones! i want to try this..

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can an actor carry on with a fight scene, when they're laughing?

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When it comes to films, learning new things about them can keep you motivated, confident, and always curious. So whether you’re a cinema expert or a novice, this Twitter account will definitely assist you in getting those brain cells tingling and gain some points in your next movie trivia quest.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was definitely a gamble. It was very possible that she would have felt even more attached to him after that encounter.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, Goetz wasn't charged with war crimes as such, but the Nazi's learned that he stole goods from murdered Jewish people. That wasn't a problem for the nazi's, but the fact that he didn't give the goods to the Reich but kept them in his own posession was a problem. He was charged with theft from the Reich. This was at the end of the war though, and the allied forces took over control shortly after his imprisonment. He was sentenced to death for murdering tens of thousands of people after the war.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been a while, but those damn onion cutting ninjas caught me by surprise...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the weird thing about Hollywood. Sometimes the payday for doing great work comes with your next job, not the one where you really excel.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You might also have met him as "Chad" (really) in the Matrix Resurrections movie.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That probably helped her performance. Maybe she even avoided talking to him, because she wanted to hold onto the fear, and not realize he was just another guy!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And yet, it's truly the 1% wealthy that are the parasites on humanity. Maybe one day people will wise up and rid ourselves of them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All natural fidget spinner or some other fidgety gizmo.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always wondered about the police persona, sometimes I think it can't be helped because they deal with the worst side of humanity on a daily basis so it's no wonder their first instinct is to think the worst when meeting someone for the first time. As a 'normal' person ie someone just trying to earn enough to live and survive, I don't think we come into contact with the same types, therefore we tend to think (mostly, depending on experience of course) the best of people and don't understand when police don't act the same, maybe, just my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I'm not naive. I've met plenty of a*sh*les, police and general people and am getting on in years. I just think at lot of it is caused by the job.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just can't stomach those movies. I don't think they're clever or funny.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The scene was filmed after 'Avengers Assemble' had been released in the UK and therefore was never in the original UK cinema release. Chris Evans had to hide his face in this scene as he'd grown a beard for a different role (Snowpiercer, I believe).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s a coincidence. I have spent months at a time not understanding that movie too.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disgusting amount of money. Hollywood has lost touch with reality and real people money

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

George Lucas has talents as a film-maker, but one of them is not writing dialogue. As Harrison Ford once observed “George, you can type this sh!t, but you sure can’t say it.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tom Hardy was amazing as Bane, even the voice. Do you know how hard it is to act behind a mask and still exude emotion to create fear and panic? He was fantastic.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is also a reason why there are many police series on TV, and to an extent medical series: Police officers are an "everyman"-figure/literary device, for the viewer to see through their eyes, and they can enter ANY house and ask ANY (relevant) question, which allows more freedom for writers to discuss any subject.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't imagine him in the role, Sam Worthington was perfect, excited for the sequels!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Personally, I think that Robbie Coltrane owned that role. I have very high praise for the late Robin Williams, but I don't think the role would've been right for him.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

michael caine said he struggled with understanding what was real and what wasn´t during the filming, so Christopher Nolan told him - wherever Caine is, its real. (he was in the last scene) yeehaw.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a former junky, I only pooped about twice a month, if I was lucky, and it was like giving birth to Thanos. I'm better now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It felt like a character development in the movie really... Good choice.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really do appreciate what he went through though, one of my all time favorite holiday movies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And JoBeth Williams was apparently not told they were real until AFTER she shot the scene.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some species of sponge are believed to live for more than 2000 years!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's also the main line in the classic Black Sabbath song of the same name. Iron Man.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but the real questions are: did Tom Hardy know how to knit or had he learnt it only for the movie? was he really knitting? is he still knitting? i need answers!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once I learned what's in the box, I couldn't watch that wonderful movie for the second time...

dee dee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched it only once and had nightmares for months. Months. I guess it fulfilled its purpose, but never again.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can do you one better - I was 12 when I saw it, me and a couple of friends decided to skip school one day and go to the movies and this had just come out... Of course, back in 95 there was no internet to tell us what the movie is about.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!? I have watched this 3 times and that is the point I get panicky and sad and it turns into a true horror.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My niece got a head for practicing special effects makeup on for xmas. Her reaction opening the box was pretty much identical to this movie

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Noooo, you really don't want to know- trust us. Coming from me, having discovered the stash of color-pictured (and confidential) teaching books about "unnatural deaths and how to correctly take care of a crime scene" and authopsies etc. of my crime inspector dad at the tender age of 12. 😨🤢(Yes, i didn't sleep for 3 days afterwards and yes I never felt the need to watch horror movies since then.) I only watched this movie (unsuspecting) and "Blair Witch Project". Life (and the possibilities to end it) is more cruel horror than anyone could imagine/make up

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I still would, but that doesn't mean it's believable that he's going to be beating up villains and doing all the regular Hero stuff.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Highest-grossing doesn't necessarily mean good. Then again, Oscar doesn't necessarily mean good.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scientists worked on the renderer and is being used for research purposes because it's so accurate.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately it made no sense. There's a washer, there's a hamper with clothes, etc. It's clearly where a dryer should be and suddenly there's an out of place table with an even more out of place pizza box. Maybe just watch movies with your children and teach them about real and fantasy and the dangers of hiding in a dryer?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be how I would die in this universe. I'd be sneaking around silently and then say "ooh, chips?" and 20 seconds later... boom, dead.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, someone had to edit the "Hobbit" films into coherence!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it said New York post office, but it was New York Post office.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watch “the movies that made us” on Netflix, they have an episode about this movie and it’s great.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, the directing is heavily influenced by the works of Andrei Tarkovsky. FYI, I recommend at least watching ‘Stalker’ and/or ‘Solaris’ by Tarkovsky.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The film is sorta confusing but doesn't the ending make it all clear? Maybe that didn't come through in the script.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems that no one, including the cast, has any idea what TENET is actually about.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's not a bad actor, but he wasn't right actor to play Batman.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they should kept their vision. this is why deadpool was such a success and Logan was that good!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Out of 1500 potential Anakins, THIS was the best they could manage?!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like almost every other location night scene in movie history.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Godzilla...he is a freaking nuclear reactor people!!!.. You dont fight that with punches....sorry Kong.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As much as I dislike Tom Cruise, I admire his work ethic on films.

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