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Hollywood once made snow from painted cornflakes

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Nothing captures the silent majesty of winter quite like the deafening crunch of breakfast cereal. Classic film sets dumped tons of white-painted cornflakes to simulate blizzards, which created such a loud racket that actors had to entirely overdub their dialogue in post-production.

Hollywood once made snow from painted cornflakes
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