1.
Bill Murray
agreed to do the voice of
“Garfield”
because he thought the script was written by
Joel Coen
, the guy behind
“Fargo”
and other critically acclaimed movies.
It was actually written by
Joel Cohen
, the guy who wrote
“Daddy Day Camp”
and
“Cheaper by the Dozen”
.
2. Only two artists have ever had their first two singles make it to number one and number two on the
“Billboard”
chart in the same week:
The Beatles
and
Iggy Azalea
.
3. No one born before 1816 ever appeared in a movie. A woman named Sarah Whitley who was born in 1816 appeared in the first film ever in 1888. It was called
“Roundhay Garden Scene”
.
4. The killers in
“Silence of the Lambs”
,
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
, and
“Psycho”
are all based on the same serial killer from the ’40s and ’50s . . . a real guy named Ed Gein.
(His last name’s pronounced “Geen.”)
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5.
Andrew Carnegie
,
John D. Rockefeller
,
Henry Ford
, and
Bill Gates
all spent time as the richest man in the world . . . and all of them had a father named William.
(
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/
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/
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/
Wikipedia
/
History Half
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