Facts about Earth- More In the History

1. If we can break down the Earth and could separate out into piles of material, we’ll get 32.1 % of Iron, 30.1 % of Oxygen, 15.1 % of Silicon and 13.9 % of Magnesium.

2. Earth has a powerful magnetic field which protects it from the effect of solar winds. This happens because of the Nickel-Iron core of the planet.

3. Earth is the only planet in the solar system known to be geologically active, with Earthquakes and Volcanoes forming the landscape.

4. . Out of all the planets in the Solar system, Earth is the densest planet with the average density of 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter.

Facts about Hollywood- Crude in the History

1. The First nude scene in a major motion picture was of actress Annette Kellerman in the Film ‘A Daughter of Gods’ directed by Herbert Brendon in 1916.

2. The First Motion Film to depict a non-pornographic act was ‘Extase’, a Czech romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machaty in 1933. It starred Hedwig Kiesler known later as Hedy Lamarr.

3. The First Film to receive an X rating under the Motion Picture Association of America system of classification was ‘Greetings’ in 1968. It was an anti-establishment film directed by Brian De Palma.

4.  Hugh Hefner an American magazine publisher and the founder of Playboy magazine did not lose his virginity till he was 22 years old.

Facts about Car- Strange in the History

1.There are more than 1 billion cars in use in earth and the number is expected to increase to 2.5 billion by 2050.

2. The Number of Days it would take to reach moon if you could drive straight upward at a 60mph or 95 km/hr is 157.

3. San Marino, a very small European country, has the highest vehicles per capita leaving behind developed nations like USA and Russia. (1.263)

4. More than 40% of the time is spent on painting the car when the average time to build the car is 24 hrs.

Facts about Hollywood- Diverse in the History

1. After the grand success of Titanic, James Cameron wanted to go down with AVATAR in 1999 but the effects to be used in the Film (CGI Technology) did increased the budget of the movie manifold and no Studio was ready to fund it so it took ten years to come back in 2009.

2. The Longest kiss ever recorded in Hollywood is from the comedy film ‘You’re in the Army Now’ in 1941. The kiss lasted for 3 minutes and 6 seconds.

3. Amy Winehouse(an English singer-songwriter) known for deep contralto vocals was found dead in her apartment on 23^rd July 2011.Her autopsy didn’t conclude anything concrete, where the evidence that it may have been drugs has not been brought to light.

4. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American recording Artist, Singer, Actress and a Model. She was found dead in her bathtub submerged in water on 11^th February 2012 where the verdict of her death was said to have been the effect of some Atherosclerotic disease and Cocaine-a deadly combination. However the manner of her death has been listed as accident.

Facts about Hollywood- Offbeat in the History

1. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 German-American black comedy war film and the most unusual for a Hollywood production was that Only around 30% of the entire film is in spoken English and mostly the language is either German or French with a pinch of Italian too.

2. Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed and written by James Cameron. A very special feature about the film is more than Sixty percent of the movie made was based on Photo realistic based CGI technology and was not real.

3. The Film ‘Quantum of Solace’ was the twenty-second part of James Bond series released in 2008 and its title has been kicked around since 1989 when ‘License to Kill’ was being released, which was the sixteenth entry on the James Bond series.

4. The Number of takes for one scene in the history of Hollywood is 324 for the film ‘City Lights’ in 1931. City Lights is an American romantic comedy written directed and starring Charlie Chaplin.

Facts about Hollywood- Inside Story in the History

1. Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. In 1954 he was almost fatally injured in two successive plane crashes. He survived with some lifelong head injuries the accidents may have precipitated the physical deterioration that was to follow. After the plane crashes, Hemingway, who had been a “thinly controlled alcoholic” throughout much of his life, drank more heavily than usual to combat the pain of his injuries.

2. Winston Groom, the author of the book ‘Forrest Gump’ made a deal with Paramount for the rights but unfortunately the producers and movie studio did end up paying nothing to Groom. The reason cited was that the film lost money however the director and the actor seemed to earn millions from it as percentages in box office receipts. Further Groom refused to allow Hollywood to turn for a sequel of “Forrest Gump and Co.” into a movie.

3. Captain America is a 2011 American Superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America which was played by Chris Evans. Nobody double was used for the actor. Even for the scenes when he was skinny. Digital Technology was used to ‘Shrink’ down Evan essentially erasing portions of his physique.
 

4. ‘Fight Club’ is a 1999 American film based on the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. The film stars Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. To prepare for their roles, both of them took basic lessons in Boxing, Taekwondo and studied for hours of UFC programming. Brad Pitt went a step ahead and visited a dentist to have his front tooth chipped so that he looked real on screen.

Facts about Hollywood- Dark in the History

1. John Lennon, One of the most famous Beatle was horrible as a family man and seemed to walk out the life of his wife and his son after his divorce. Later adding more pain, he kept his family out of his will after he passes away.

2. Jake Gyllenhaal, an American Actor, is born into a family of talents. His father Stephen Gyllenhaal is a director and his mother Noami Foner is a Producer /Screenwriter. The most amusing part is that his sister is Maggie Gyllenhaal who supposedly is a very fine actress of the present times.

3. Joshua Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor. As an experiment, Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito busker at the metro subway station in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2007. For his 45 minutes performance of the 1097 people who passes by, only seven stopped to listen to him and only one recognised him. He collected $32.17 from 27 passersby.

4. Veronica Lake was an American film, Stage and Television Actress. A stray lock of her shoulder-length, blonde hair during a publicity photo shoot led to her iconic “Peekaboo” hairstyle, which was widely intimated. During World War II, She changed her trademark image to adopt more practical and safer hairstyle risking her career to encourage women working in war industry factories.

Facts about Hollywood- Edifice in the History

1. The First Motion Film Studio in the world was Thomas Edison’s ‘Black Maria’ in West Orange, New Hersey built in 1893. It costs around $637 to build it.

2. The First Studio was established by the Nestor Company on October 1911. It was built at the Blondeau Tavern building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, Los Angeles.

3. The First Nightclub of Hollywood was ‘Cafe Montmartre’ and it was opened by Adolph ‘Eddie’ in 1923 at 6763 Hollywood Boulevard.

4. The World’s First Circular Office was the “Capitol Record Tower “also known as The Capitol Record Building was built in 1956 in Los Angeles. It is a thirteen-storey tower and had hosted the musical nights of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra.

Facts about Hollywood- More from the History

1. The First Hollywood Stunt Man was ex-U.S. Cavalry Frank Hanaway who was first cast in ‘The Great Train Robbery’ in 1903 for his ability to fall off a horse without hurting himself.

2. The First Hollywood Stunt Woman was Helen Gibson whose first stint was in ‘The Hazards of Helen’ in 1914. She was an American actress, a trick rider, a rodeo performer and a film producer.

3. The Largest Hollywood Film set ever built was for the Hollywood Epic ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’. The dimensions of the set was 1312’ X 754’.

4. The Last Silent Film produced for general distribution was ‘The Poor Millionaire’ directed by George Melford in 1930.

Facts about Hollywood- Miscellaneous in the History

1. The Shortest Dialogue Script since the introduction of sound in the movies was written for Mel Brook’s ‘SILENT MOVIE’ in the year 1976 which has only one spoken word throughout ‘Non’.

2. The First African-American to play a lead role in a feature film was Sam Lucas in the film ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ in the year 1914.

3. The Only Instance when a Noble prize winning author (Ernest Hemingway) was adapted for the screen by another Nobel Prize winning author (William Faulkner) for the film ‘To have and have Not’ in the year 1945.

4. The World’s First Circular Office was the “Capitol Record Tower “also known as The Capitol Record Building was built in 1956 in Los Angeles. It is a thirteen-storey tower and had hosted the musical nights of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra.

Facts about the Hollywood- Professionalism in the History

1. The shooting of ‘Cast Away’ (An American film starring Tom Hanks stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crash) was halted for a year because of the commitment of Tom Hanks.  He was suppose to portray a man stranded on an island and had to lose fifty pounds so that he could look like one.

2. Brad Pitt is banned from entering China because of a role that he played in a movie ‘Seven years In Tibet’. The movie is a 1997 French film based on the 1952 book seven years in Tibet written on the experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War 11 and the Chinese PLA’s invasion of Tibet in 1950.

3. James Cameron, a Canadian film director (Films like TITANIC and AVATAR) was a truck driver before he made his way to the film industry. In fact the sketch of Kate Winslet in the film ‘Titanic’ that Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be drawing was drawn by James Cameron himself owning to his professionalism to connect with the reality.

4. The Planet Vulcan shown in the Film ‘Star Trek: the motion Picture’ released by Paramount Pictures in 1979, is actually Yellowstone National Park.  Just to connect it on more real terms, it was chosen with lot of hurdles on it. It is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

Facts about Hollywood- Million in the History

1. The First Hollywood Actor who earned a pay-check of 1 million dollar for a film was William Holden for ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in 1957.

2. The First Hollywood Actress who brought home a one million dollar pay-check for a single film was Elizabeth Taylor for the Film ‘Cleopatra’ in 1963.

3. The First Animated Film to gross over $200 Million was ‘Aladdin’ in 1992. It was an American animated fantasy film.

4. Jennifer Aniston, one of the sexiest women in the world alive, was the highest paid actress of television of all time, with a salary of $1 million per episode of the tenth season of ‘Friends’ in 2005.

Facts about Hollywood- Unknown in the History

1. Thomas Jeffrey Tom Hanks, an American actor, writer and a director is a distant cousin of American president Abraham Lincoln.

2. Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, and an environmentalist. He is famous for the character of a secret agent James Bond in the series however it was astonishing to know that after his graduation he was working for a circus theatre for six months.

3. Robert Doughlas Thomas Pattinson, an English Actor, Model and a Musician was among 5000 actors that were put to test for the role of Edward Cullen in the Famous Twilight series.

4. Peter Gardner Ostrum, a native of Cleveland, played an important role as a child actor (Charlie Bucket) in Mel Stuart’s ’Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ in 1971  and was offered a three-movie contract but he turned it down . He never acted again and is now a Veterinarian in rural New York.

 

5. Bruce lee was a Hong Kong -American martial artist, an Instructor and an Action film Actor. In most of his movies the shot had to be slowed down because the Bruce movement’s during action sequences were too fast to capture them in a camera.