A Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret. His daughter later said, if he had received a hostile reaction, he would’ve used the sword to perform a ritual suicide by disembowelment instead.

Scarlett Johansson really approached random men while filming Under the Skin (2013), asking them “Are you single? What are you doing tonight?” and offering them a lift. None of them were actors and some of the footage ended up in the film.

In 1883, the body of a bear and Frank Devereaux were found dead beside each other with the ground around them thrashed for 20 feet. It’s believed the man and bear fought to the death. The body of Frank Devereaux was recently found in the woods eight miles from Cheboygan, Mich. The surroundings showed that he was killed in a bear fight, which resulted fatally for both, as the animal’s body was found near that of the dead man. The body was terribly cut up in the contest, and the ground torn for a space of twenty feet, showing that the struggle had been a fearful one.

11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving; 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.

At the time of his death, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was the world’s richest man, worth $200 billion.

Big Eyes (film released in 2014) was the first Tim Burton film in 18 years starring actors other than Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter

Michael Jackson wrote songs for Sonic the Hedgehog 3

It costs $30,000 to get on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A-Listers like Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Clint Eastwood, and Al Pacino don’t have a star because they didn’t pay

The little boy who played Danny in The Shining, was so guarded by Stanley Kubrick during the filming process that he did not know it was a horror film until many years later. He has since abandoned acting and gone on to become a science teacher

During the height of the CA gold rush, an egg would cost the equivalent of $25 in today’s money, coffee went for $100/pound, and a pair of boots would set you back more than $2,500.

The famous beat poet Allen Ginsberg was a member of NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Assosciation), once stating “Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance. I’m a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too – everybody does, who has a little humanity.”

During the filming of the climactic assault on Tony’s mansion, Steven Spielberg (fresh off the success of E.T.) visited the set. As a gesture of respect, De Palma passed the director’s chair to him for one shot, where a henchman throws a spike over the wall to scale the roof.