Entertainment

Oasis star Noel Gallagher once took cocaine in a toilet reserved for the Queen in Downing Street.

During development at Pixar, Toy Story 2 was accidentally deleted, but was recovered by an employee who saved the movie to her computer at home while on maternal leave.

The cat featured in the popular internet meme "grumpy cat" has a permanently grumpy face due to feline dwarfism. Her real name is Tardar Sauce.

Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper by George Orwell and received a B-.

In the 1980 TV special 'Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over,' the Coyote finally catches the Road Runner. After decades of failed attempts, he succeeds—only to turn to the camera and hold up a sign asking, 'Okay wise guys, you always wanted me to catch him. Now what do I do?'

George Clooney once cleaned his roommate's cat litter box for four consecutive days, then crapped in it himself, causing his roommate to think it was from his constipated cat.

The University of Victoria offers a course in the science of Batman.

In the mid-70s, the actor who portrays Mike from “Breaking Bad” began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty.

Paul Walker was in a jewellery store one day when he noticed a young U.S. military veteran with his fiancée shopping for a wedding ring. Paul went to the manager and said “Put that girl’s ring on my tab.”

Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.

There's a real religion called "Dudeism" that spawned from the movie "The Big Lebowski." Dudeism advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the flow," "being cool headed," and "taking it easy."

A man named Ryan McNaught spent 470 hours building a giant LEGO replica of the historic Roman town of Pompeii, using over 190,000 bricks.

In the “Forrest Gump” novel that the movie is based on, Forrest goes into space with NASA. Upon return, he crash lands on an island full of cannibals. He only survives because he beats the head cannibal at chess everyday.

American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but, instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.

In 2012, Animal Planet aired a two-hour mockumentary called "Mermaid: The Body Found" that many viewers found so convincing, they overwhelmed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with phone calls demanding the truth about the existence of mermaids.

Seann William Scott, who played the over-the-top Stifler in the American Pie films, was extremely shy in real life and didn't have a girlfriend until he was 27 years old.

At age 12, Simon Cowell was arrested for hijacking a bus with a toy gun.

In 2010, George Lucas said "I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race." Two years later, Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney for 4.05 billion dollars and is donating the majority of the proceeds to a charity that focuses on education.

In the 2004 Harvard-Yale game, Yale students tricked thousands of Harvard fans into holding up cards that together spelled out "WE SUCK."

In 1987, Spy Magazine sent checks to wealthy celebrities starting at $1.11, then progressively smaller amounts to those who cashed them. At the final round of 13-cent checks, only two people cashed them: Donald Trump and Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.