7 secrets of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" revealed!

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Can you believe it's been 40 years since the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" first premiered? The Today Show brought all the kids, now in their 50's, back for a reunion. All of the former child-actors seem well-adjusted and positive about their experience on the set four decades ago. That's not the only surprise about the movie that shaped most of our psyches. The gang of five cut right to the chase, answering some of the biggest questions we had about Wonka's paradise as kids. Here are their shocking confessions:

1. None of the kids were allowed to see inside Wonka's factory before they filmed the entrance scene. So the awe they express in the movie is 100 percent genuine.
2. Except for the actress who played Veruca Salt. She snuck in a month before when the sound stage was still being built. No surprise there.
3. You know the daffodil teacup Gene Wilder's Wonka ate? Made of wax!
4. And that chocolate river Augustus falls in? Water and food dye.
5. Poor Violet Beauregard: the actress who played the little girl with a gum-chewing addiction was dyed blue for her extermination scene. The color lasted 72 hours after filming, which meant she had to go to school with it on.
6. Four of the five child actors grew up to be accountants or financial consultants. What are the odds of that?
7. Also there's no such thing as a schnozberry. (Cue spit take.)

Here are few more questions I'm submitting to be answered by the movie's 50th reunion: What were the everlasting gobstoppers made of? Why was that teacher so mean to poor kids? What was more delicious: the classic Wonka bar or the scrumdidlyumcious bar? Did Wonka ever perfect the 3 course-dinner gum? And the million dollar question: what happened to all the kids after the oompa-loompas took them away?

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