Casablanca was not filmed in Casablanca.
The 1942 film was shot entirely on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, apart from one sequence at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.
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- 1941 Velcro was invented after a walk with a dog. In 1941 Swiss engineer George de Mestral came back from a hunt in the Alps covered in burrs and saw hundreds of tiny hooks under the microscope.
- 1942 · 1951 Superglue was discovered by accident and promptly rejected.
- 1942 · 1944 A brown bear served in the Polish army in World War II. Wojtek was enlisted as a private so he could board a ship in Egypt, and his company’s badge became a bear carrying an artillery shell.
- 1943 · 1945 The Slinky was invented when a spring fell off a shelf.
- 1943 During World War II the Oscars were made of plaster.
- 1943 In World War II the American psychologist B. F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide bombs.