The filming of The Beach permanently damaged the ecosystem on the Thai island it was located on.
The First World War was a phrase coined by a journalist in 1918 because they felt that it would not be the final world war.
"The man who cannot visualise a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot." ~ André Breton
Star Wars was the first major film to be dubbed in Navajo.
Russia's economy is smaller than Texas, New York or California. They do have better vodka though.
"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them." ~ Jules Verne
There are more skin cancer cases related to tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases to smoking.
A finger with nerve damage doesn't wrinkle underwater.
Towns near Fukushima are now being plagued by hordes of rampaging radioactive wild boars. Where are Asterix and Obelix when you need them?
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