Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971): 20 Weird Facts You Never Knew!

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971): 20 Weird Facts You Never Knew!

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Before Timothée Chalamet dons the purple coat, before Johnny Depp's... interesting interpretation, there was Gene Wilder's pure imagination. That 1971 masterpiece that made us all believe chocolate rivers were a reasonable form of transportation and that trusting a mysterious candy man with questionable labor practices was totally fine.

Today, we're unwrapping 20 Weird Facts you probably didn't know about Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—the movie that convinced a generation of kids that golden tickets were more valuable than actual gold.

And stick around for #1 because the truth about how this movie got made will blow your mind more than Violet Beauregarde after chewing experimental gum.

Before we dive into our chocolate fountain of knowledge, go ahead and subscribe to keep the nostalgia flowing. Now, let's see if these facts are as sweet as we remember, or if some of them might leave a bitter aftertaste.

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