Strange but true

[The March Hare]

The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

[The March Hare]

Oscar nominated actor Tom Berenger earlier appeared in US soap 'One Life to Live'. HIs luckless character, Tom Siegel fell in love with a nun and died after falling down some stairs.

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Another Hollywood box office hit, Tommy Lee Jones, also appeared in 'One Life to Live'. His character, Mark Toland, was involved in blackmail, affairs and was wanted for murder. In all, Jones spent four years on the soap.

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An early acting job for Kevin Kline was as the character, Woody Reed in the US soap, Search For Tomorrow.

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Broadway and West End singing sensation Elaine Paige served her apprenticeship in UK soap Crossroads. She had a small part as Caroline Winthrop in the late sixties.

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Actress Sissy Spacek got so into the part of Carrie that she slept with fake pig's blood all over her to ensure continuity.

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David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films, was also in the Stanley Kubrick classic 'A Clockwork Orange'. He is the caretaker of the man who was beaten by Malcolm McDowell's character and his gang. David Prowse carries the man who is now in a wheel chair around the house.

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Ronald Reagan was the only president to have ever worn a NAZI uniform. (Of course. he wore it as an actor in a movie)

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Artist Pablo Picasso appeared in a crowd scene in Jean Cocteau's 1962 film, The Testament of Orpheus.

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Both actors that have played 'Mr. Rourke' on the 'Fantasy Island' television programs have also played a villain on 'Star Trek'.

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Lon Chaney's great skill as a silent film actor came about as a result of his upbringing. Both of his parents were deaf-mutes, so he learned to communicate by expressive pantomime.

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Hollywood director Steven Spielberg played a cameo role as the clerk who receives Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi's money at the end of the Blues Brothers.

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Max Von Sydow plays Jesus Christ in 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' and Satan in 'Needful Things', the only actor to play both parts.

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Ed Koch, the Mayor of New York in 1984, played himself in the film, The Muppets Take Manhattan.

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Stephen King, no stranger to taking walk on roles in the films of his own novels, played the minister at a funeral in the 1989 adaptation of his book, Pet Cemetery

[The March Hare]

In the film, 'Titanic', when Jack walks through the french doors for dinner with Rose and her family, a camera man's reflection can be seen on the glass.

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During one scene in 'The Sound of Music', an orange box can be clearly seen stamped with the words 'Produce of Israel'. The film was set in 1938, ten years before Israel was founded.

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Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristhingyches.

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In the 1985 movie, 'Falling in Love', a reflection of the camera can be seen in a mirror.

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Esteemed actor Richard Harris was seen wearing an elastoplast on his neck when playing King Arthur in the film 'Camelot'.

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Edward G Robinson's character in 'The Last Gangster' gets sent to Alcatraz in 1927. This was probably not as bad a sentence as you might imagine since the prison wasn't opened there until 1934.

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In one scene from this movie a young boy who is nothing to do with the film is scene moving across the set. Later, when this was discovered, no-one knew who he was and rumours started to spread about a possible haunting.

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Television ariels can clearly be seen on the roofs of Victorian London in the comedy, 'The Wrong Box'.

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A red London bus can be seen in the background of one of the battle scenes from the Arthurian legend film, 'Excalibur'.