The roars of the lions in the original movie The Lion King weren't actual lion roars. Recordings of real lions roaring didn't sound "real" enough. Instead it was the voice of the actor who played Scooby Doo (Frank Welker) roaring into a trashcan.
Fun fact: When studying how dogs read and interpret human faces/emotions, their eyes move in a pattern very similar to humans. We’ve essentially co-evolved and it shows.
There's a phenomenon called the "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon," or "frequency illusion." Have you ever learned a new word, fact, or idea and then suddenly started seeing it everywhere? That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action. After you learn something new or are made aware of something, you unconsciously keep an eye out for it, and as a result, you believe it's occurring more frequently than before. In reality, the frequency hasn't changed—your awareness has.
This phenomenon gets its name from the Baader-Meinhof Group, a German terrorist group from the 1970s. People who heard about the group for the first time felt like they began encountering references to it everywhere, hence the name of the phenomenon.
Fun Fact: Did you know that Black Ivory Coffee - made by feeding Arabica cheeries to Northern Thailand elephants and collecting the beans from the elephants' faeces - is the world's most expensive coffee (about $1,000 per pound)?
Fun fact: If you want to get better running form, you simply need to pause your music and listen. Make as little noise as you can running, and you're golden.
Fun fact:
Hitler was elected in a democracy.
Some might even go as far as saying during economic and political conditions not unlike today.
(okay, maybe this fact wasn't so fun)
Fun Fact: The Spanish national anthem has no words. The 'Marcha Real' is one of only four national anthems in the world (along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) to have no official lyrics.
Jackie (Mila Kunis) and Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) from "That '70s show" were not only a couple in the TV series they also got married in real life a few years after