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TIL on the set of The Princess Bride, André the Giant once “let out a 16 second fart and brought production to a standstill.” Nobody said anything except director Rob Reiner, who said “Are you OK, André?” to which André replied, “I am now boss.”

When “The Princess Bride” opened 30 years ago today, it wasn’t exactly a hit with audiences. During the 11 weeks it played in theaters, the film earned $25.5 million, according to Box Office Mojo, and ranked 41st in domestic grosses that year.

However, Cary Elwes, who starred as Westley in the fantasy film, told ABC News that he was delighted when audiences rediscovered and embraced the movie after it was released on video.

“I’m very proud of it,” he said. “It gave me the career and life I have, so I’m very grateful for it.”

In celebration of the movie’s anniversary, Elwes reflected on making the film and shared personal stories of his time on the set. Though many of his memories were recounted in his 2014 book, “As You Wish,” here are a few thoughts that even the biggest “Princess Bride” fans might not know:

1. He was a fan of the book as a teenager: Elwes’ stepfather gave him a copy of “The Princess Bride” when he was 13, and he was instantly hooked. Author William Goldman’s sense of humor captivated him, and of course, he said he was “enamored” with Westley. Still, he added, “I couldn’t have imagined myself playing him!”

2. The audition process was pretty informal: Elwes was shooting the film “Maschenka” in Berlin when his agent called to tell him director Rob Reiner and his producing partner wanted to come to Germany to interview him. The audition happened in Elwes’ hotel room, and though he didn’t think he needed to prepare anything, Elwes ended up reading Westley’s monologue from the fire swamp for Reiner. “I didn’t think I was going to get it at all, frankly, because I was an unknown actor at the time and it’s not often that they hire unknown actors to be the leads of films in Hollywood. It’s very rare,” he said. “A week later I got the call and that was that! I was beyond excited.”

3. Robin Wright wasn’t cast until the eleventh hour: Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest had already signed on by the time Elwes was cast, but Reiner had yet to find his perfect Princess Buttercup. With just a week to go before filming, a very nervous Reiner, who had been auditioning English actresses, agreed to look at Wright’s audition tape at the behest of casting director Jane Jenkins. She joined the cast almost immediately thereafter. “She’s just fun to be around! She’s one of the guys,” Elwes said of Wright. “Very down to earth.”

4. The cast and crew were very comfortable together: During the shoot, which Elwes said lasted for about a month-and-a-half, the cast and crew grew very close. “I can’t remember a day without laughter,” he said. Reiner acted as the father of the group, hosting dinners for the cast and encouraging game nights and other hang outs. One indication that the group was going to jell came on the first day, Elwes said, when wrestler André the Giant, who played Fezzik in the movie, “let out a 16 second fart and brought production to a standstill.” “It could be heard three counties away,” Elwes said with a laugh. “Nobody said anything except Rob, who said ‘Are you OK, André?’ and André replied, ‘I am now boss.’ He was comfortable enough to do that!”

5. Production had to shift because of an injury: Elwes said he “stupidly” broke his toe while goofing around on André the Giant’s ATV, which caused Reiner to move the filming of Elwes’ fight scene with Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya toward the end of production. Still, “we rehearsed pretty much every day,” he said of the highly choreographed duel. “We never stopped working on it.”

6. Elwes did many of his own stunts: “Rob wanted to see our faces a lot so that was not much of a choice,” Elwes said of doing his own stunts in the film. However, he said he did have a “fearless” stunt double who showed him how to safely pull off some of the more complicated moves. That stunt double can be seen rolling down the hill in one of the film’s most famous scenes (“I didn’t want to do the hill but Rob didn’t want me to do it either,” Elwes said), and, Elwes added, an acrobat came in to perform the swing during the fight sequence.

7. No, he didn’t have a ponytail during filming: “They had wigs and little ponytails — stuff like that,” Elwes said of his on-screen look. “But the funny thing was, by the end of the movie, my hair grew to the exact length they needed!”

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1. Got attacked by a seagull in toilet

The bathroom is on the 2nd floor and has a high ceiling with a little window which is open, so he got in there.

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2. Never got a haircut until turns to 13 years old.

It was an attention thing or religious thing!

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3. A turkey jumped in a car once.

For some reason the concept was funnier than actually seeing it.

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4. Air force Thunderbird that crashed in a field next to the someone’s house.

The Air force Thunderbird crashed after the 2016 USAFA graduation and the sad thing the pilot wasn’t as lucky and didn’t make it out alive.

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5. A squirrel ran out from underneath it carrying a full doughnut.

Squirrels are just like rats you can’t leave your food unattended because the squirrels and crows will unzip your bag and rob you if you don’t keep on eye on your foods. LOL

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6. Man survived a failed demolition of a smokestack falling on him.

Companies who can recover items like this do post-accident analysis to determine what worked and what didn’t in the design. In this case, the engineers are eager to see how the cab’s design successfully protected the operator so they can apply that lesson on future designs.

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7. Abraham Wald, applied mathematics in WWII.

Engineering has come a long enough way since WWI in that it’s not just a “look at the problem areas and beef it up” approach anymore.

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There is so much information out there, and, when you arrange it in the right and fun way, it can be totally mind blowing. Take a look at the list we have here!

1. Since its discovery, in 1930, Pluto has not yet made a full orbit of the sun.It went from undiscovered, to planet, to not planet in less than a Pluto year.
2. The Great Sphinx of Giza is so old that it was the ancient Egyptians themselves who performed the first restoration after digging it from under the dunes, over 1000 years after it had been built.
3. Over the space of three days, an estimated 165 people survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb attacks.
4. Cows kill more Americans than terrorists. Most years
5. About 40 percent of the world’s food is wasted. And a lot of that is before it even hits the shelves. SAD
6. Next year, there will be pornstars who were born in 2000. Woah! Check it out.
7. Lobsters don’t die of old age. Taking into consideration that humanity has only explored a small percentage of the ocean: there could very well be a BIG FUCKING LOBSTER just chilling out there.
8. Google’s Deepmind self learning AI “AlphaZero” spent 4 hours learning chess, and proceeded to beat the top chess engine in the world.
9. There is, on average, a supernova explosion every fifty years in the Milky Way. On average, there are thirty every second in the observable universe.
10. Probably too late for this to be seen. But if you take into account the fact that on average people sleep (or should sleep) 8 hours a day, if/when you get 99 years of age, you will have only been awake for 66 years; having spent 33 YEARS of your life sleeping. That’s why I always stay up late…
11. Fanta started as a Coca-Cola substitute in 1940s Nazi Germany. So if you like Fanta you must be a Nazi.
12. As you get closer to black hole, time goes slower. This means that everything farther away would experience time faster and faster as you get closer and closer to the black hole. A second for you could be a billion years for those outside of it. Thus, if you fell into a black hole and looked outside, you would see the universe die with you.
13. Froot Loops are all the same flavor.
14. There are more tigers privately owned in Texas than tigers in the wild.
15. Next to the US army, Disney world is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA
16. When The Next Generation first aired, Data was roughly 60,000x faster than the fastest computer on earth, today he is roughly 500x slower than the current fastest computer.
17. The Moon orbits us from the west to the east, but we see it move across the sky east to west because of the rate of the Earth’s rotation – our observation is like being in a faster car watching a slower car (heading in the same absolute direction) fall further and further behind us.
18. The first electric car was invented at the end of the nineteenth century and it went 65 mph.
19. If the earth was the size of a marble you would need seven miles of space to build a scale model of the solar system.
20. There was a time in history when trees existed but the fungi which causes wood to rot had not yet evolved to digest wood.