Fun Fact #9

Lupe Fiasco, the lead singer of Japanese Cartoon(I'm also told he's some sort of rap guy) takes his stage name from the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. There is a part in the film where Jimmie(Tarantino) is imposed upon by two gangsters. He is reluctant to help them because he does not normally do what they request ("When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said 'Dead Letter Office'?") and also because his wife Bonnie is due home soon. In the Spanish dub of the film Jimmie's wife is named Lupe, and the segment is known as The Lupe Fiasco.

Fun Fact #8

In the late 19th century, Mikael Pederson developed one of the first tandem bicycles. His bicycle differed from other tandems mostly in intent. Pederson was a vocal believer in centaurs, and thought that when they finally revealed themselves to humanity they might like bikes.

"Aw, man. I'm baked and I'm totally gonna be late for
work, and my Domino's shirt is still wet from
the wash, and I had to stuff it in my satchel...
Jesse's gonna chew my ass. I wish I had a bike."

Sorry about the picture. Centaurs may not be real, but I think I'd rather they existed than this monster.

Fun Fact #7

All the best rugby teams have at least one eunuch. They are allowed testosterone replacement therapy to make them just as aggressive as the other players, and the advantages are obvious.

Hitler was half way to being one of the best, if you know
what I mean. Here he demonstrates his technique for
snatching testicles from the jaws of defeat. Or for defeat.
Of the other team.

Fun Fact #6 and Others

Fun Fact: Steven Spielberg has to constantly be talked out of giving his characters whips.

Indiana Jones is the only character that ended up anywhere near Spielberg's initial concept, but with considerably less whipping. In the famous "Indy shoots the swordsman" scene, Spielberg originally intended to have Jones whip the sword out of his hand, and then whip his foe to death over several minutes. Seeing he would never win the argument against the whipping death, Ford faked a bout of dysentery and convinced Spielberg the pain and diarrhea were too severe to film the scene as written, which allowed him to just shoot the swordsman.

Other examples(by no means a comprehensive list):

Jaws:
Spielberg added a scene(later cut) to Jaws wherein Chief Brody whips his son repeatedly for not cleaning his plate.

Brody also later whips Hooper before Quint takes the whip away and throws it behind him without looking. The whip lands right in the shark's face.

Always:
In the film Always, Spielberg had Dreyfuss' character Pete Sandich attempt to whip Hap(Audrey Hepburn) to prove that she's not actually a supernatural being. After whipping through her spirit body several times, Dreyfuss says in an astonished voice "So it's true what they say, you can't whip an angel." This scene was kept in the script, but after Hepburn sustained numerous injuries while trying to film the scene, it was cut.

Amistad:
Oddly, Amistad contained only one instance of whipping. Martin Van Buren is seen whipping a hot dog out of a passerby's hand and eating it. Van Buren then quips "I'm a slave to Ball Park Franks."

Spielberg said he thought seeing any of the slaves get whipped might have been in poor taste.

This still from the original cut of Hook
shows Wendy and Tinkerbell's first encounter

Jurassic Park:
In the background of one scene, a dinosaur is seen whipping monkeys out of a tree and into its waiting mouth.The scene was cut due to the fact that a dinosaur living in an island park and who presumably has no job would be unable to afford a whip.

E.T.:
When Elliott investigates the strange noises coming from the backyard shed, he tosses a baseball into the shed and is immediately whipped across the face.

Spielberg envisioned ET as having an alien utility belt that included several lengths of whip.

Spielberg was never happy with the government agents holding guns, and in the director's cut the guns have been digitally removed and replaced by whips.

And another thing. Why was E.T.(an interstellar scientist) totally nude? Even if at home they run around naked as the day they were hatched, wouldn't a team of extraterrestrial botanists have some sort of protection from a foreign environment? Or at least some sort of short apron that would cover their genitals while allowing them to defecate through the open back? At least Spielberg realized they would need some sort of tool box or belt for their instruments and/or whips.

Fun Fact #5

The original proposed nickname for ALS was Lou-kemia.
However, this idea was shot down by the American Medical Association. AMA President Irvin Abell contended that the nickname was inaccurate, since ALS is a neurodegenerative disease while leukemia is a form of cancer.
Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis said it just plain wasn't funny.

Mr. Landis engaging in his own national
pastime - hurling baseballs at orphans

Fun Fact #4 and Others

Fun Fact: Cyborg, the 1989 sci-fi action flick starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, was actually born from aborted attempts at a Masters of the Universe sequel and a Spider-man movie.

Funner Fact: Masters of the Universe was originally intended to be one of the many big-screen adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The main difference in writer David Odell's vision of the classic tale? Jane falls in love with the Wolfman. The Wolfman later became the character of Beastman in Masters of the Universe.

Funner and more Furious: Odell's original script was later turned into the smash hit Eyre Bud, which coincidentally opened the same weekend as Eyre Force One (itself an adaptation of Emily Brontë's only dog novel, Wuthering Bites).

Fun Fact: Tokyo Drift: Cyborg 2 was Angelina Jolie's first starring role. No shit.

Fun Fact #3

Gwyneth Paltrow did not originally audition for the part of Pepper Potts in the Iron Man films. She tried out for the lead role of Tony Stark. In the end, the producers said that they felt Tony Stark should remain a handsome playboy, rather than an insufferable bitch.

Tony Shark again

Fun Fact #2

Bald Eagles smell like fresh chocolate chip cookies. A LOT like fresh chocolate chip cookies. This is one of the main reasons they are protected. If you ever get close to a bald eagle, it's going to take every ounce of your self-restraint to not eat that thing.

His breath smells like warm brownies.

And dead rats.

Fun Fact #1

As a safety precaution all time-lock bank vaults in the U.S. are required to have several non-perishable meals stored in them. Most of the cabinets containing these are disguised as safe deposit boxes on the bottom row.