Hitler couldn't get into art school because he dropped out of high school
If you've ever wondered why Scotty on the original Star Trek series sounds Irish, it's because James Doonan was a master of several varieties of Scottish speech, but the director was worried people wouldn't be able to understand him. As such: Irish.
All the mumbo-jumbo in the first Ghostbusters film is real stuff
Vampira's look was based on the then-unnamed mother from the Addams Family comic Morticia's look for the tv show was then partly inspired by Vampira (and then Elvira happened)
Mads Mikkelsen was the bitch that had better have had Rihanna's money
The guy being stalked in the music video for Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue" was also Captain Awesome from tv's "Chuck"
When Outlaw Country musician Billy Joe Schaffer lost his fingers, he had the presence of mind to put them in ice and head to the emergency room. According to him, these days, they are most likely in a jar on some pretty nurse's shelf.
Miles Morales's dad (Jefferson Davis) is named after Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America. Y'know, the guys who seceded from the US because Lincoln was elected and they wanted to own people.
Hitler used to melt lead and pour it into water because he thought he could see the future in the shape the lead set in. He also thought the number 7 was lucky
There are people who risk their lives sneaking flash drives of American tv shows into North Korea to show people that the state misrepresents foreigners. NCIS is particularly popular.
Famously, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill (the guitarists for ZZ Top) have long, lustrous beards. Their drummer, Frank, is named Beard.
Frank Oz once claimed he'd gotten Animal's character down to just five words
Punctuation was invented for the Bible, specifically so orators could have an easier time reading specific passages
Theodoret of Cyrus argued that the natural cushioning of the butt was a mark of Divine Providence (and he did so while calling people ungrateful)
The man who played Orestes in the original production of Orestes (in 408 BC) was named Hegelochus We know this purely because he fucked up the accent on line 279 and people thought he said "I can see the WEASEL after the storm" and he never lived it down
Beginning in the middle ages and ending around Colonial Times, it was relatively common practice to put animals on trial for crimes. In some places, they would even dress them in people clothes for the trials!
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