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300. Breath, by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue. 301. Bret Hart trademarked the nickname 'Hitman' in 1990.
302. Carnegie Melon University offers bag piping as a major.
303. Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
304. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third.
305. Even though she is married to Mellon Mero, Sable (real name Rena Mero) entered the WWF under HHH's wing. She was one of the 'beauties' that 'The Greenich Snob' brought to the ring.
306. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
307. February is black history month.
308. Godzilla has made the covers of Time and Newsweek.
309. Gone With the Wind is the only Civil War epic ever filmed without a single battle scene.
310. In 1938, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
311. In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070.
312. It is bad luck to say "Macbeth" in a theater.
313. Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
314. Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
315. Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Jim Henson's, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.
316. Little Miss Muffet was arachnophobia.
317. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
318. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the back-ground--when they say walla-walla it looks like they are actually talking.
319. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
320. Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.
321. C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
322. Cleopatra cost over $40 million to produce in 1963.
323. Darth Vader is the only officer in the Imperial Forces who doesn't have a rank.
324. Debra Winger was the voice of ET
325. Dirty Harry's last name is Callahan.
326. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
327. Felix Leiter is James Bond's CIA contact.
328. First Film to be given the title
329. Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
330. In Disney's Fantasia, the sorcerer's name is Yensid (Disney spelt backwards).
331. In Psycho, the color of Mrs. Bates' dress was periwinkle blue.
332. In the "Return of the Jedi" special edition during the new Couruscant footage at the end of the film a stormtrooper can be seen being carried over the crowds.
333. In the 1983 film JAWS 3D the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
334. In the early days of silent films, there was blatant thievery. Unscrupulous film companies would steal the film, re-shoot a scene or two, and release it as a new production. The combat this, the Biograph company put the company's trademark initials AB somewhere in every scene--on a door, a wall, or window.
335. In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
336. In the Mario Brothers movie, the Princess' first name is Daisy, but in Mario 64, the game, her first name is Peach. Before that, it's Princess Toadstool.
337. In the movie 'Now and Then', when the girls are talking to the hippie (Branden Fraser), and they get up to leave, Teeny (Thora Birch) puts out her cigarette twice.
338. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's last name is Gale.
339. James Bond is known as "Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang" in Italy.
340. James Bond likes his martinis shaken, not stirred.
341. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original PREDATOR in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
342. King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
343. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
344. Love Me Tender was Elvis Presley's first film.
345. Luke Skywalker's last name was changed at the last minute from Starkiller in order to make it less violent.
346. More bullets were fired in Starship Troopers than in any other movie made.
347. Mrs. Clause's first name is Jessica in the movie "Santa Clause is Coming to Town."
348. Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies.
349. Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make. $5 million went to actor's salaries.
350. Seven people are killed in the movie
351. Skull island is the jungle home of King Kong.
352. The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.
353. The famous dum-de-dum-dum theme, obstensively from 'Dragnet' was actually composed by Miklos Rozsa for the 1946 film noir classic, The Killers.
354. The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.
355. The first James Bond movie was "Dr. No."
356. The first real motion picture theatre was called a Nickelodeon (admission was a nickel) and opened in McKeesport Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh in 190 The first motion picture shown there was The Great Train Robbery.
357. The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was ‘smile’.
358. The Lion King is the top grossing Disney movie of all-time with domestic gross intake of $312 million.
359. The longest film ever released was “****” by Andy Warhol, which lasted 24 hours. It proved, not surprisingly (except perhaps to its creator) an utter failure. It was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as 'The Loves of Ondine.'
360. The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film "You're in the Army Now", it lasted 3 minutes and 3 seconds.
361. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
362. The movie 'Cleopatra', starring Elizabeth Taylor, was banned from Egypt in 1963 because she was a Jewish convert.
363. The movie Braveheart was filmed in Ireland.
364. The movie Cleopatra cost $28 million to make in 1963.
365. The movie Clue has three different endings. Each ending was randomly chosen for different theaters. All three endings are present in the home video.
366. The movie, Paris, Texas was banned in the city Paris, Texas shortly after its box office release.
367. The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz
368. The name of Jabba Hut's pet spider monkey is Salacious Crumb.
369. The name of the dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas was Max.
370. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.
371. The second unit films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors.
372. The skyscraper in Die Hard is the Twentieth Century Fox Tower.
373. The sound of ET walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
374. The word "Mafia" was purposely omitted from the Godfather screenplay.
375. What does U.F.C. champion Dan 'the beast' Severn have in common with former Hardcore champion Al Snow? In the ring, not too much. But in the movies, they both played a football player in the movie 'Rudy'.
376. When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the martini shot, the next to last one is the Abby Singer.
377. When the movie The Wizard of Oz first came out, it got bad reviews. The critics said, it was stupid and uncreative.
378. 1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
379. A young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumram, Jordan, in 1947.
380. Almost all the villains in the Bible have red hair.
381. Christianity has over a billion followers. Islam is next in representation with half this number
382. In ancient religions, the Norsemen considered the mistletoe a baleful plant that caused the death of Baldur, the shining god of youth.
383. In Turkey, the color of mourning is violet. In most Muslim countries and in China it is white.
384. It was only after 440 AD that December 25 was celebrated as the birth date of Jesus Christ.
385. Kerimaki Church in Finland is the world's biggest church made of wood.
386. Las Vegas has the most chapels per capita than any other U.S. city.
387. On the stone temples of Madurai in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
388. The election of a new Pope is announced to the world with white smoke.
389. The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. In the past, candles were used as light ornaments--being dangerous, the installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected the together, strung them on a tree, and hooked them to a battery.
390. The last word in the Bible is Amen.
391. The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.
392. The official name of the St. Louis Gateway Arch is "The Jefferson National Expansion Monument."
393. The practice of exchanging presents at Christmas originated with the Romans.
394. The three cardinal virtues are faith, hope and charity.
395. The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
396. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
397. Two-thirds of Portugal was owned by the Church in the early eighteenth century.
398. Voodoo originated in Haiti.
399. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
400. 1 out of 4 Americans do not know what their astrological sign is.