Hugh Jackman went without water for 36 hours before filming the opening scene of "Les Miserables".
Stargate was the first movie to have an official website.
The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.
Saul Bellow kept his fiction separate from his essays and criticisms by using a two-typewriter system. Costly at first maybe, but it definitely kept him organised!
The Beatles had to stop touring because their music couldn't be amplified loud enough to play over the screaming fans.
Tom Hardy (Bane) needed 3 inch heels to be the same height as Christian Bale so he could "look him in the eyes" in Batman.
Betty White has been nominated for an Emmy in six different decades.
The Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster because metal was scarce.
While Pierce Brosnan was under contract to play James Bond, he was not allowed to wear a tuxedo in any other non-Bond movie.
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo XI crew have moons on the Hollywood Walk of Fame instead of stars!