- Venezuela occupies most of the northern coast of South
America on the Caribbean Sea.
- Slavery was abolished in Venezuela in 1854.
- Venezuela was the largest oil exporter in the world in the early twentieth century.
- Population of Venezuela is 28,946,101.
- Angel Falls in Venezuela is the tallest waterfall in the world.
- No one in Greece can choose to not vote. Voting is required by law for
every citizen who is 18 or older.
- About 7% of all the marble produced in the world comes from Greece.
- Greece is the leading producer of sea sponges.
- Greek has been spoken for more than 3,000 years, making it one of the
oldest languages in Europe.
- The first Olympic Games took place in 776 B.C. The first Olympic champion
was a Greek cook named Coroebus who won the sprint race.
- In the film’s opening scene, Vito is famously seen holding a cat.
Amazingly this was a stray - there was no cat in the original script.
- Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog," so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition.
- The shooting of Moe Greene square through the eyeball was inspired by the real life death of gangster Bugsy Siegel.
- The most complicated scene for special effects was the death of Sonny Corleone at the Jones Beach Causeway toll plaza.
- Robert De Niro had auditioned for the role of Sonny.
- 7-Eleven has sold over 6.5 billion slurpees till date.
- Most slurpees are sold in Cannda.
- Slurpee light - the low calorie version of the drink accounts for 20 percent of the total sales of the Slurpee.
- One lucky individual in this world owns the slurpee machine, the rest are in 7-eleven stores.
- In 2004, 7-eleven gave edible straws along with slurpees.
- Ray Ban glasses had a massive spike in sales in 1986 after the release of the movie.
- The US Navy capitalized on the movie’s success by setting up recruitment
boots outside movie theatres so that males heading home after watching it could sign up
for a career in the service.
- Tom Cruise was paid $1 million for his role.
- Anthony Edwards (Goose) was the only actor who didn't vomit in the flight scenes.
- Kerry McGillis(Charlie) is taller than Tom Cruise.
- I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. - The Godfather
- Here's looking at you, kid. - Casablanca
- You talking to me? - Taxi Driver
- I'm the king of the world! - Titanic
- I feel the need - the need for speed! - Top Gun
- Brad Pitt says he didn’t want his parents to see the movie, but he
couldn’t convince them not to watch. They changed their minds after
watching the chemical burn scene.
- When Tyler and the Narrator are fighting and gather a crowd, no one intervenes, but instead look rather bemused.
- The movie’s line “The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about
Fight Club” was 27 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere in
2007.
- Atleast one Starbucks cup is visible in every scene.
- Russell Crowe was the initial choice for the role of Tyler Durden.
