Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics in the early 1990s so that he could play Spider-Man in his own movie.
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While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
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The scene in Skyfall where Daniel Craig is shaved with a classical razor lead to a 400% increase of straight edge razor sales.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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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, hence "Oz."
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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