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Actor Johnny Depp took time out from filming to make a surprise visit to Meridian Primary School in Greenwich, London, dressed as his character from the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies to answer a nine-year-old pupil's cry for help in leading a mutiny against her teachers, said the Associated Press.

One in five British sixto 12-year-olds thinks Buzz Lightyear from the'Toy Story' films was the first person to walk on the moon, found astudy of 2,000 children carried out to mark the launch of the 'What OnEarth' historical wallchart, reported the Daily Mail. A third didn'tknow that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and one in tenthought Rolf Harris painted the Mona Lisa.

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