1. Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"

2. Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair

3. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)

4. In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.

5. The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur

6. Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating

7. In E.T: The Extra Terrestrial, there was a matte painting which showed all the fast food restaurant chains in the world along one street, and a drive in movie theater showing Star Wars

8. In Star Wars the aliens playing in the band are played by members of the ILM creature shop, including Phil Tippett, and the executive producer

9. "Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars

10. In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

11. In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet

12. There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and Independence Day among others

13. In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark

14. Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

15. There is a statuette of R2-D2 attached to the model of the mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and on the Borg ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation

16. The eye pieces on the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact, flash in Morse code, spelling out the names of several members of the production team

17. James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger

18. Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television

19. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie

20. Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees

21. Cheech and Chong were awarded the first Bronze Taco, on July 24 1984

22. Humphery Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca

23. Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"

24. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

25. Gone With the Wind had the working titles Tote the Weary Load and Ba! Ba! Black Sheep

26. The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales

27. It used to be illegal to swim by daylight

28. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

29. The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

30. William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays

31. The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and "Floccipaucinihilipilification" are in the English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!

32. The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."

33. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

34. "I" is the most spoken word in the English language

35. "You" is the second most spoken English word

36. "O" is considered to be the oldest vowel in the English language

37. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.

38. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"

39. Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area

40. Alberta is home to Canada's largest Ukrainian Easter egg

41. The fastest broadcaster in history is Canadian Gerry Wilmont, from Victoria B.C. He was a hockey commentator

42. A Canadian invented the paint roller

43. A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"

44. Canada is home to the International Federation of Bodybuilders

45. Nova Scotia boasts Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor

46. New Brunswick is the lobster capital of the world

47. 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails

48. Deborah Ann Fountain, the 1981 Miss New York State, was disqualified from the Miss U.S.A pageant for padding her bathing suit

49. The only two bald Presidents were Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower

50. In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history

51. John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes

52. David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for only one day

53. The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula

54. The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Isalnd

55. Benjamin Franklin was considered to be America's first cartoonist, he was also the first to suggest that clocks may be moved forward or backward to extend the daylight hours

56. South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital, Pierre

57. Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state

58. The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu

59. The Florida Citrus Bowl football game was previously named for the tangerine

60. The full name for Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprast

61. You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers

62. Dublin is home to the Fairy Investigation Society

63. There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces

64. The KGB is headquartered at No. 2 Felix Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow

65. Walloons speak French

66. The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983

67. Spain leads the world in cork production

68. There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower

69. here are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

70. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road

71. There is a city in Norway called "Hell"

72. The Anglo-Saxons called May Thrimilice because cows at that point could be milked three times a day

73. The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

74. In the first century AD, Roman doctors endorsed the brushing of teeth with urine

75. Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy

76. The only animal which was allowed into an ancient Roman temple was a cat

77. In ancient Egypt, you could be put to death for killing a cat

78. An Egyptian has to say "I divorce thee" three times to be legally divorced

79. Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Akhenaten, was married to Nefertiti, and was king Tutankhamen's father, he also decreed that the sun god Aten was the only god to be worshipped by Egyptians during his reign

80. Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, she was Greek, not Egyptian

81. The plant centaury is so named because it's medicinal properties were said to have been discovered by Chiron, the mythical centaur doctor and teacher.

82. In ancient Greece, "idiot" meant private citizen or layman

83. Vincent Van Goh sold only one painting in his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles

84. Vincent Van Goh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows

85. Salvador Dali once arrived at an exhibition with flies glued to his face

86. Salvador Dali was expelled from art school for refusing to allow professors to critique his work

87. Michelangelo's sculpture Pieta is the only work of his to bear his signature, it is on Mary's mantle strap

88. Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

89. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other

90. Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror

91. After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down

92. If an equestrian statue has two legs the air, the person on the horses back died in battle, if the horse has only one leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle, if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

93. Ionic columns have 23 flutes

94. Botticelli illustrated Dante's Inferno

95. most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm

96. One human hair can support 3kg

97. Blondes have more hair than dark haired people

98. The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb

99. The human brain is 85% water

100. Children grow faster in the springtime

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