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--David Alan Grier, Ice Cube, Dave Chappelle and John Travolta all turned down the offer to play the role of Bubba from Forrest Gump. Chevy Chase also turned down the role of playing Forrest.

--During the filming of "Batman Begins", Christian Bale lost his voice three times due to altering his voice while playing Batman.

--During the filming of Fight Club Brad Pitt chipped his tooth , but waited to have it capped until after filming because he felt it added to his character.
 
Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.

A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.

The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.
 
--Woody Harrelson's father is serving life in prison. Charles Harrelson is an organized crime-connected freelance hitman, who also has claimed that he was involved in John F. Kennedy's assassination.

--Sylvester Stallone's first movie acting role was in a porn movie, called Party at Kitty and Stud's. This movie came out in 1970, when Sly was but 24 years old. Stallone is the leading man in this film, and he later acknowledged in a Playboy interview that he was paid $200 for his role.

--During the filming of "Batman Begins", Christian Bale lost his voice three times due to altering his voice while playing Batman. :lol:
 
--In June 1974 the mystery of Jack Nicholson's birth came to light. Jack's "sister" June was in fact Jack's mother. Jack, born on 22 April 1937, had been the illegitimate child of 17-year-old June Nicholson. Nicholson had spent his life up to age 37 assuming that his biological mother, June, was his sister, and that his maternal grandmother, Ethel May, was his mother. Even on their deathbeds, neither June nor Ethel May had offered up the truth.

--Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for Rocky and sold it for a very low price, on the condition that he star in the movie and receive a share of the profits. Rocky went on to win three Oscars, including best picture. It made Stallone's movie career.

--During the filming of the movie "Scream", director Wes Craven kept telling Drew Barrymore real life stories about animal cruelty in order to keep her looking scared and crying. She is a keen animal lover in real life.
 
Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people. :eyebrow:

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital

Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
 
--In the movie "Scarface" the F-word is said 207 time, which works out to an average of 1.22 per minute.:eek:

--The stunt double for Bernie in the movie "Weekend at Bernie's" suffered a few broken ribs while filming the movie, due to all the pitfalls and stunts of playing a dead man; most notably in the scene involving Bernie being dragged around the surface of the lake, bumping into metal floating obstacles.

--During the filming of the movie "Scream", director Wes Craven kept telling Drew Barrymore real life stories about animal cruelty in order to keep her looking scared and crying. She is a keen animal lover in real life.
 
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--In June 1974 the mystery of Jack Nicholson's birth came to light. Jack's "sister" June was in fact Jack's mother. Jack, born on 22 April 1937, had been the illegitimate child of 17-year-old June Nicholson. Nicholson had spent his life up to age 37 assuming that his biological mother, June, was his sister, and that his maternal grandmother, Ethel May, was his mother. Even on their deathbeds, neither June nor Ethel May had offered up the truth.


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There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment

Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House
 
--In the pilot episode of the TV series "ER", George Clooney's cousin, Miguel Ferrer, appeared as a guest star, and George Clooney's aunt, Rosemary Clooney (Ferrer's mother), appeared in the second regular episode. George Clooney did not appear together in any scenes with either of them

--The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by Steven Spielberg. When plans fell through and the project eventually became a series, Spielberg became interested in another Michael Crichton creation: Jurassic Park
 
The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks

Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000
 
--Hot dogs are the most widely consumed form of sausage in the USA.

--Ketchup has not always been made out of tomatoes. It started out as a general term for sauce, typically made of mushrooms or fish brine with herbs and spices. Mushroom ketchup is still available in some countries, such as the UK. Some popular early main ingredients include anchovy, oyster, lobster, walnut, kidney bean, cucumber, cranberry, lemon, and grape.

--The "baby carrots" sold in supermarkets, are often not from a smaller cultivar of carrot, but are simply full-sized carrots that have been sliced and peeled to make carrot sticks of a uniform shape and size.
 
At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters

The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
 
There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330

“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles
 
--To make Pop Rocks, the hot sugar mixture is allowed to mix with carbon dioxide gas at about 600psi. The carbon dioxide gas forms tiny, 600psi bubbles in the candy. When you put the candy in your mouth, it melts and releases the bubbles. What you are hearing and feeling is the 600psi carbon dioxide gas being released from each bubble.

--Drinking 16 ounces of ice water burns 17.5 Calories to warm the water to body temperature.
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In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
 
--Raw kiwifruit is rich in the protein-dissolving enzyme actinidin, which is commercially useful as a meat tenderizer but can be an allergen for some individuals. This enzyme makes raw kiwifruit unsuitable for use in desserts containing milk or any other dairy products which are not going to be served within hours, because it soon begins to dissolve milk proteins. This also applies to gelatin based desserts, as well, as the actinidin will dissolve the collagen proteins in gelatin very quickly, either liquifying the dessert, or preventing it from solidifying.

--Multiple trials indicate that taking vinegar with food increases satiety (the feeling of fullness) and so reduces the amount of food consumed. Even a single application of vinegar can lead to reduced food intake for a whole day. Apple cider vinegar is a much more useful astringent than ice and will reduce inflammation, bruising and swelling in approximately a third of the time that ice will take. Application is directly onto the skin with a flannel, and left on for an hour or so.

--During the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, sausages were associated with the Lupercalia festival. The early Catholic Church outlawed the Lupercalia Festival and made eating sausage a sin. For this reason, the Roman emperor Constantine banned the eating of sausages.
 
The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z. :eyebrow:

Judy Scheindlin (”Judge Judy”) has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary. :shocked:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119
 
--In Fascist Italy under the regime of Benito Mussolini, political dissidents were force-fed large quantities of castor oil by Fascist paramilitary groups. Victims of this treatment would experience severe diarrhea and dehydration, often resulting in death. Sometimes when the blackshirts wished to make sure that the victim would die rather than simply be badly disabled, they would mix gasoline with the castor oil. It is said that Mussolini's power was backed by "the bludgeon and castor oil."

--Cochineal and Carmine are deep crimson food dyes that are extracted from the female cochineal insects. It is used in foods such as alcoholic drinks, bakery products and toppings, cookies, desserts, icings, pie fillings, jams, preserves, gelatin desserts, juice beverages, varieties of cheddar cheese and other dairy products, sauces and sweets. Cochineal is also used to color Mcdonalds Strawberry Shakes. The average human consumes one to two drops of carminic acid each year with food. The insects are killed by immersion in hot water (after which they are dried) or by exposure to sunlight, steam, or the heat of an oven. Each method produces a different colour which results in the varied appearance of commercial cochineal. The insects are then dried and ground into a powder.
 
In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
 
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska’s third largest city.

There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France

In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined
 
On average people fear spiders more than they do death

Elephants only sleep for two hours each day

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
 
If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. :bono: :larry: :adam: :edge:

“Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined
 
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. :eyebrow:
 
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as “Q-Link.”
 
One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match :eyebrow:

The youngest pope ever was 11 years old
 
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