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The loudest sound that could be made in 1600 was the pipe organ

American car horns beep in the tone of F

50 Cent's In Da Club was written in a half hour

The clarinet is also known as a licorice stick

There is a crater on Mercury named after the composer Beethoven

The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself

All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

The term "The whole nine yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machin gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole nine yards"

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries

The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: he Next Generation, was played by six different cats

In Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role

In the movie "The Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Murcury astronaut program is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Cuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the converstaion the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recuiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as "Fred"

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie "Planet of the Apes" was "Smile"

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book "The Naked Lunch"

One of the may Tarzans Karmuela Searlel was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Meatles at a rligious retreat in India

In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time

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