THE GODFATHER was released 50 years today. A landmark of American cinema, there's some interesting facts around the making of the film...
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In Japan there is now a minor boom in falconry: crows are attacking solar power plants with stones, and the only effective way to keep crows away is to deploy falcons. One trained falcon making 60 attack sorties a day can protect 100,000 solar panels from vengeful crows.
There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD.
1/11: When Star Wars beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety
Today I’m all about these photos from the end-of-final-series party for Cheers. I suspect these will also be of potential interest to my little brother @stevie_chick x
Thanks to social media this is one of the most famous battlefield relics from Napoleonic era. It captures the moment of a man's death. It is not a joke or a Monty Python sketch about a scratch. It might not seem so funny if we knew more about the man and his death. 1/10
I served 13 UK foreign secretaries:
G Howe
J Major
D Hurd
M Rifkind
R Cook
J Straw
M Beckett
D Miliband
W Hague
P Hammond
B Johnson
J Hunt
D Raab
Two were entirely different to the others, in a class of their own: stand-out, barely mitigated disasters.
Go on. Guess.
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Some of our Facebook followers found it hilarious when 27 people drowned in the Channel last week.
We confronted them to find out why.
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