Why not fill your head with useless — but amusing — information? Here’s a few facts that you can toss around with friends and family.
In the Lord of the Rings, although Bill the Pony is a feature of the novel, the writers initially decided not to include him as the Fellowship make their journey for the simple logistical reason of transporting a horse deep into the mountains. The problem was solved in the more difficult shots by using the classic pantomime trick of dressing two people up as a horse, one at the front and one at the back.
The average American’s vocabulary is around 10,000 words — 15,000 if you are really smart. Shakespeare had a vocabulary of over 29,000 words.
47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking of the Titanic and got jobs in New York thereafter.
In the movie Carrie, the slow motion scene at the end of the movie was filmed in reverse to simulate ghostlike movement effects. If watched vigilantly, cars can be seen driving backwards in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
For the movie The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland got paid $35 a week, while Toto got paid $125.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Humoring the Goddess 