2. When a young writer approached United Artist's with his script for the story of a club fighter who gets his shot at the Heavy Weight boxing title, they loved it. The executives wanted to cast Robert Redford but the writer insisted he star in the lead role. The executives gave in and the young writer Sylvester Stallone was cast as the title character Rocky Balboa.
3. ....Stallone's first acting job was in the soft porn film "The Party at Kitty and Stud's". A job he took out of necessity after he was kicked out of his flat.
4. Dick Van Dyke claimed to have once been rescued from drifting out to sea and possible death by a pod of porpoises.
5. In a show of her skills Actress Toni Collette, once pretended to have appendicitis and was so convincing her appendix was removed.
6. More people die every year from donkey related injuries than in plane crashes.
7. Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes.
8. The first draft of Steinbecks' masterpiece "Of Mice and Men" was eaten by his dog.
9. The first music video to be shown on MTV Europe was "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. For those of you to young to remember yes MTV used to play music videos and hardly any reality TV.
10. This is the 3D shadow of a rotating 4D Hypercube.
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