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There was once a time when the Olympics gave out medals for the arts.

“Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive,” the BBC said.

Emma Morano, born in the Piedmont region of Italy (1899), just died at age 117 and was the last known living person from the 19th century.

Someone made a film, which featured over ten hours of paint drying, just so the people on the censorship board would have to watch it.

In 1963, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space & the first civilian. 50 years later she wants to go Mars.

An electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen is called a 'chyron.'

The town in van Gogh’s 'The Starry Night' is Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. He was a patient in a Saint-Rémy psych hospital when he painted it.

After her 5th husband, Lana Turner dated Johnny Stompanato, aka Handsome Harry, an enforcer for Mickey Cohen - then her daughter killed him.

The lineup in The Usual Suspects was originally meant to be serious, but Benicio del Toro couldn’t stop farting so they laughed throughout.

A Swedish journalist exhibited hoax paintings that were actually made by an ape. Before anyone knew, many critics deemed them masterpieces.

Brando won an Oscar for The Godfather (1972) but declined it on the grounds that Hollywood was racist in its portrayals of Native Americans.

In 1652, builders cut off Jesus' feet in Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' - just to install a doorway in the wall where the mural was painted.

Movie trailers got their name because they used to be played after the feature showing, not before it like they are today.

Orson Welles self-portrait

The 1st female doctor in Britain spent 56 years as James Barry. It wasn’t until after his death in 1865 that he was discovered to be female.

The US is 40x the size of the UK, which is 4 countries: England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. 11 of the states are bigger than all of UK.

Pearls can dissolve in vinegar.

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan

In 1969, "Blue Movie" by Andy Warhol was the first adult erotic film depicting explicit sex to receive a wide theatrical release in the USA.

In South Dakota, it is illegal to have a movie that shows police officers being struck, beaten, or otherwise treated in an offensive manner.