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data/data/facts/literature.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "\"The Siege Of Belgrade\" was a poem written by Alaric Watts in 1817. It was a poem where each line (of 27) had only words beginning with each letter of the alphabet: Line 1: A-words. Line 2:B-Words. Line 26: Z-words"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "\"The Tale of Genji\", a Japanese work from the early eleventh century, is considered by many scholars to be the world's first full novel. The novel was written by a woman: Murasaki Shikibu, or Lady Murasaki."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "After completing his book on the French revolution, the great English historian Thomas Carlyle gave the manuscript to his friend John Stuart Mill to proofread. By mistake Mill's housemaid used the papers to kindle a fire and destroyed the entire manuscript. Undaunted, Carlyle sat down and, without benefit of notes (he had destroyed these himself), completely reconstructed and rewrote the book."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "After publishing his famous dictionary, Noah Webster rewrote the bible, replacing all the words he considered were “naughty”."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Alexander Pope published “The Rape of the Lock” at age twenty-four. Browning wrote “Pauline” when he was twenty, Bryon wrote “Childe Harold” at twenty-four. Keats wrote “Endymion” at twenty-three."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote a 6,000 word epic poem when he was twelve years old."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "All of the roles in Shakespeare's plays were originally acted by men and boys. In England at that time, it wasn't proper for females to appear on stage."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "All or part of Shakespeare’s 300 original First Folios still survive."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book \"Peter Pan\" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in London."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "America's only statue of Charles Dickens graces Clark Park in Philadelphia, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted for his defence of the British concentration camps in the Boar war, not because of his Sherlock Holmes books."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary \"Peter Rabbit\" children's stories in 1902."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Edgar Allan Poe and James Abbott McNeill Whistler both went to West Point."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story. Before he wrote “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget” the genre was totally unknown in English or American literature."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, only four of which were published during her lifetime."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "English writer Ben Johnson was buried standing up in Westminister Abbey because he couldn’t afford normal grave space."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, \"Gadsby\", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter \"E.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Fagin, the sinister villain in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, was also the name of Dickens' best friend, Bob Fagin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Faust, the protagonist of works by Christopher Marlowe, Goethe, and dozens of other writers, was an actual person. Johann Faust was a sixteenth-century doctor of theology at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. Many stories were told about him during his lifetime, including one in which he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for external youth and wisdom. The tale captured the imagination of authors for centuries afterward."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450's, and the first book to ever be printed was the Bible. It was, however, in Latin rather than English."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who made John and Priscilla Alden famous in his poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” was related to both these actual historical personages."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, \"Paradise Lost.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "John Milton went blind at the age of 46, which meant his greatest poem Paradise Lost could only be writeen with the help of his 3 daughters, doubled as secretaries."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his famous poem “Kubla Khan” directly from a dream. Coleridge was in the midst of writing down the visions he had seen in his dream when someone knocked on the door and he rose to let him in. On returning to his work, Coleridge found that he could not remember the rest of the dream. That is why “Kubla Khan” remains unfinished."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say \"many things\" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible - in many places - refers to \"40 days,\" they meant many days."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The Indian epic poem the Mahabharata is 8 times longer than the Greek epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey combined."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The fairy tales “Puss in Boots,” “Little Red Ridinghood,” “Cinderella,” and many others were first written down by Charles Perrault, who also helped design part of the Louvre."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The oldest surviving love poem is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C. It was unromantically named Istanbul #2461 by the archeologists who unearthed it."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The original story from \"Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights\" begins, \"Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The original story of Alice in Wonderland was not known as Alice in Wonderland at all. It was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground and was illustrated by the author himself, Lewis Carroll—whose name was not Lewis Carroll, but Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Dodgson was a mathematics professor at Christ's Church, Oxford."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The original title of the musical \"Hello Dolly!\" was \"Dolly: A Damned Exasperating Woman.\" Why did they change it? The original had such music, poetry, and pizzazz."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The tam o' shanter is named for the hero of Robert Burns's poem of the same name."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "The word ‘nerd’ was first coined by Dr. Seuss in ‘If I ran the Zoo’"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "William Cullen Bryant, famous American critic, biographer, and civic leader, published a well-known satire on Thomas Jefferson at the age of thirteen. Before he was eighteen he had written his most famous poem, “To a Waterfowl.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "literature",
+    "fact": "“The Washington Post March” by John Philip Susa was named after a newspaper, the Washington Post."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/math.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multipled by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "Enter the value 0.1134 on your calculator, then turn it upside down. You've just written \"hello.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter 'a'"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "On a bingo card of ninety numbers there are approximately 44 possible ways to make bingo."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "Prince Charles twice failed his Maths 'O' Level."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "math",
+    "fact": "The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/monetary.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "A dime has 118 ridges around the edge"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "A dime has 118 ridges around the edge."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "A dime has 118 ridges on it."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "America once issued a 5-cent bill."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Assuming that each fold neatly overlaps its opposite side, a dollar bill can be folded only six times—seven if put into a vise. (Try it.)"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Ben Franklin coined the word battery."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Folding money was invented by the Chinese, and was first made out of deerskin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "If a US coin has the letter “S” printed on it, it was minted in San Francisco; a “D” means it was made in Denver; no letter at all means it was minted in Philadelphia."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "In 1060 a coin was minted in England shaped like a clover. The user could break off any of the four leaves and use them as separate pieces of currency."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the \"1\" encased in the \"shield\" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it. Of course the $1 bill is unlucky - if it was lucky it would be a $100 bill."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve-sided coin."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "monetary",
+    "fact": "US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/movies.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "'Some Like it Hot' (1959) was originally called 'Not Tonight Josephine'."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "About 55% of all movies are rated R."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called Blackmail and was made in 1931."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck on 4:20."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Arnold Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name “Arnold Strong” in “Hercules Goes Bananas.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Braveheart director/producer Mel Gibson was investigated by the RSPCA inspectors, who refused to believe the horses on show weren't real but mechanical instead."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the \"Jaws\" movies."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Disney's Beauty and the Beast is the only animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture Oscar."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Dooley Wilson appeared as Sam in the movie Casablanca. Dooley was a drummer - not a pianist in real life. The man who really played the piano in Casablanca was a Warner Brothers staff musician who was at a piano off camera during the filming."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Dracula is the most filmed story of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is second and Oliver Twist is third."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "During the casting of the film Gone with the Wind, more than 1,400 candidates were interviewed for the part of Scarlett O'Hara, and more than $92,000 was spent in the search."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "During the chariot scene in \"Ben Hur,\" a small red car can be seen in the distance."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. \"You've got Mail!\")."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "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."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In 1939, Hollywood film companies produced an average of two motion pictures every day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In Hitchcock’s movie, \"Rear Window\", Jimmy Stewart plays a character wearing a leg cast from the waist down. In one scene, the cast switches legs, and in another, the signature on the cast is missing."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In Psycho, the color of Mrs. Bates' dress was periwinkle blue."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In Star Wars when the storm troopers break into the control room where R2-D2 and C-3PO are hiding, one of them smacks his head on the door and falls backwards."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the 1959 film Ben-Hur, nine chariots start the race, but six crash and four finish, making a total of ten."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the Godfather movies, oranges represent an upcoming death."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie \"Bustin' Loose\" where Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson take a group of underprivileged kids to the west coast, the car in which Cicely Tyson's boyfriend is pursuing them changes interior color from red to white and then back to red several times."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie \"Scarface\" the F-word is said 207 time, which works out to an average of 1.22 per minute."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie \"Two Jakes,\" which is set in the 1940's, Jack Nicholson walks right by a BankOne automatic teller machine. Didn't know there were too many of those around in the 1940's."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie 'Now and Then', when the girls are talking to the hippie (Brenden Fraser), and they get up to leave, Teeny (Thora Birch) puts out her cigarette twice."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie 'Toy Story', the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in 'The Shining."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie Ghost (Patrick and Demi) when Demi is making something on the pottery wheel her hands are covered in clay. But when her husband comes up behind her to give her a kiss she turns around and they are completely clean."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In the movie, ‘Star Wars’, during the scene in which Luke gets out of his X-wing fighter after blowing up the Death Star, he accidentally calls Princess Leia ‘Carrie’ (her real first name)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "In “Casablanca”, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam”."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "James Bond author Ian Fleming also wrote the childrens novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "John Larroquette was the narrator of \"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "King Kong is the first movie to have its sequel -- Son of Kong -- released the same year (1933)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "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."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hedren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "More bullets were fired in ‘Starship Troopers’ than any other movie ever made."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Never mind what you saw in the film \"The Poseidon Adventure.\" The biggest wave on record, reported by a reliable source, was estimated to have attained a height of 112 feet. It was measured, at some distance, I hope, by a tanker traveling between Manila and San Diego in 1933. The wind was blowing at 70 mph at the time."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Pia Zadora's first movie role was as a young child, as one of the protagonists in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the first film featuring the character Indiana Jones, was crawling with four-, eight-, and no-legged creatures:"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Roger Ebert is the only film critic to ever have won the Pulitzer prize."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adopted into film 49 times, Romeo and Juliet has been adopted into film 27 times."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Some famous robots that appeared in the movies Ash - Alien, Gort - The Day the Earth Stood Still, Maria - Metropolis, Sonny - I-Robot, Huet, Duey and Luey - Silent Running"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film \"Some Like It Hot'."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The \"second unit\" films movie shots that do not require the presence of actors."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - \"As Good As It Gets\", is known in China as \"Mr. Cat Poop\"."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The 1st kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in \"The Widow Jones,\" in 1896."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The Empire State Building in New York City played a prominent role in the movie Sleepless in Seattle. This year 15 couples will take (or renew) their vows on the 80th floor of this famous landmark."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The Oscar film trophy is named after Oscar Pierce, a wealthy Texas farmer. Before the trophy had any name at all, Pierce's niece, then serving as librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commented that the statue reminded her of her Uncle Oscar. A newspaper columnist overheard the chance remark and subsequently wrote that “employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar.'” The name stuck."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The Salvation Army in Australia made the worlds first full length feature movie in 1900."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The average cost of a movie in 1940 was 24¢"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The cowboy movie star Tom Mix drove a Rolls-Royce that had a pair of antlers as a radiator cap. Mix once ordered tires for his limousine with his initials printed in relieft. At that time Hollywood was connect by a network of dirt roads; whenever Mix drove along one of these roads he would leave a long trail of “TM”s imprinted in the dust."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The extras in the the battle scenes in the movie Braveheart were reserves in the Irish army."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The figure of Kong Kong seen in the original movie of the same name was actually a model 18 inches high."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The film Quo Vadis used 30,000 extras (and 63 lions)."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The first film granted permission by the Chinese government to be filmed in the Forbidden City was The Last Emperor, 1987."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The largest cast ever assembled for a film scene was 300,000 for the funeral scene in Gandhi."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The largest number of fatalities on a film set is 40, occuring during the making of 'The Sword of Tipu Sultan' in 1989."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The mask used by Michael Myers in the original \"Halloween\" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The most expensive movie poster in history was the poster from 1932's The Mummy which auctioned for $453,000 in 1977."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The movie \"Paris, Texas\" was banned in the city of Paris, Texas, shorty after its box office release."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The movie playing at the drive-in at the beginning of \"The Flintstones\" was the The Monster."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "The name of the dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is Max."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "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\"."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "movies",
+    "fact": "You might not recognize the song from the movie HOLIDAY INN...or from the composer's name of Irving Berlin. But you're bound to know it because it's on everyone's list of Christmas favorites: WHITE CHRISTMAS."
+  }
+]