| The Academy Awards ceremonies have been delayed or postponed three times: because of a flood in 1938, for the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. |
| The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." |
| Just after picking up his Oscar for his 1982 animated short film "Tango," producer Zbigniew Rybczynski got into a scuffle with a security guard and had a brief stint behind bars. |
| Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four. |
| It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt. |
| The first Valentine's Day card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orlean to his wife in 1415. |
| Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the letter 'e.' |
| The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off! |
| A "funambulist" is a tight-rope walker. |
| The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off! |