The twist ending of Planet of the Apes was shot on Westward Beach in Malibu. The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was brought in as a writer for the film, and he was the one to come up with the ending.

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American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started the Las Vegas strip in 1946 by building the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. The hotel closed later that year, only to reopen in 1947.

On June 20, 1947, Bugsy was sitting in the living room of his girlfriend's house reading the Los Angeles Times. A car pulled into the driveway, and fired an M-1 carbine through the window. Bugsy was shot several times, including twice in the head.

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The Terrebonne Parish neighborhood of the city of Monegut in Louisiana was the principal filming location for the film Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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In the film Beasts of the Southern Wild, the mythical aurochs are enormous boars that inhabit the movie.

Aurochs are (or more accurately, were) neither mythical or pork-like. The wild ancestor of cattle, aurochs were enormous and ferocious versions of today's docile domesticated breeds. Cave paintings in France depict battles with aurochs, and their territory ranged from western Europe to eastern Asia, and into northern Africa.

Through over-hunting, habitat destruction, and diseases from domesticated cattle, the auroch numbers diminished. The last auroch died in 1627 in the forest outside of this Polish village. There is a monument there to commemorate the extinction of this species.

There is currently a scientific collaboration, Project TaurOs, to genetically recreate the auroch species.

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Dwight Henry plays the father role, Wink, in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild. The film was his first major acting role; Henry is a baker and business owner by trade. The Buttermilk Drop Bakery and Cafe is where he sells the recipes he's been perfecting for the past twenty years.

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