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When I was a kid in the 1970s, the COSI museum in Columbus, Ohio had a model of Telstar similar to this. It may very well have been a relic from the 1964 World's Fair.
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One time at Dragon Con I was pushing my way through a revolving door when Kenny Baker appeared on the other side of the glass, also pushing. I had been off in my own little world lost in thought (no doubt in a galaxy far, far away) so it was a little startling. It probably only lasted a few seconds, but for a few seconds we both had our hands up against the glass, like Kirk and Spock reenacting Spock's death scene in WRATH OF KHAN.
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Some of these aren't quite correct...

Anthony Michael Head's series of commercials in the U.K. with Sharon Maughan were for Nescafé Gold Blend. They later made a similar series in the U.S. for Taster's Choice.
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And just to note, if you find yourself curious which movies have some interesting after-the-credits scenes, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a section for that: in a movie's entry, along with "trivia" and "goofs", there's a "crazy credits" section.
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A friend of mine is a big Disney buff, and one time she was giving me a tour of Disneyland and knew all these places with "dark" lore. For example, here some woman had been killed by the Tom Sawyer riverboat when a rope snapped.

Or here was the spot where, if you stood by this fence when Tinkerbell slid down the rope from the castle, you could hear the "wommp!" when she dropped to the mattress. Ok, that's not really a dark thing, but it was an interesting bit of trivia.

Also, in the Haunted Mansion, there's place where there's a spiderweb covering part of the glass where they project the ghosts, and it's not there in the Disneyworld version. The reason it was put there was, somebody fired a gun from the ghost-car and cracked the glass, and it would have been hugely expensive to replace the glass, so they put up the spiderweb to cover the bullet-hole.

Also, supposedly when they were testing the log flume ride, it kept decapitating the dummies until they made adjustments.

Then of course there's the place with Walt Disney's private apartment. I guess that doesn't count as a "dark" area.

It was a little creepy to hear the revised Tiki Birds routine with Phil Hartman's voice, soon after he died. I don't know it that has been replaced or put back to the original.

On another tagent, just today a monorail driver at Disneyworld was killed.
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