50 More Really Nerdy Facts I Know Off The Top
Of My Head
By: Michael Lee
Im going to make this intoshort, sweet, and to the point: Everybody loves sequels! So I wrote another list of nerdy facts I know of. Check it:
1) Indiana Jones' whip is made of kangaroo hide.
2) Lando Calrissian was originally concieved as a veteran clone from the Clone Wars, who would lead an army of former clones in a revolt in
Episode VI.
3) The Pizza Planet Delivery truck from Toy Story appears in every Pixar movie following it.
4) The Incredible Hulk is so strong, he once hurled Fing Fang Foom from Antartica to the Moon.
5) Ryan Reynolds' favorite cartoon character is Snarf from The Thundercats
6) The DeLorean in Back To The Future was originally able to travel trough time by driving through a nuclear bomb explosion.
7) A picture of Gandalf the Grey (from The Lord of the Rings) can be seen in the collection of great wizards in Professor Dumbledore’s study in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8) Forbes Magazine did a breakdown of how much it would actually cost to become Batman. The magazine estimated that total expenses in US dollars would be around $3.5 million.
9) The clouds in Super Mario Bros. are recolored bushes
10) Frames from King Kong, Them, and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms are hidden within Clovefield
11) There is a potato and a shoe hidden in the asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back
12) In Avatar, the Na'vi are left handed and have one finger less than the Avatars, who are right handed.
13) Mickey Mouse was the first ever cartoon character to talk. His famous first words: "Hot dogs!".
14) A Vulcan's heart is where a human’s liver would normally be.
15) In the sequel to the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (titled Charlie and the Glass Elevator), Charlie and Willy Wonka must save astronauts from predatory extraterrestrials that have infested a space station.
16) Scarlett Johansson's bra size is 34C
17) Jason Voorhees's mask is a 1950's Detroit Red Wings hockey mask
18) The formula for the original Play-Doh compound still remains top secret.
19) The band Evergreen Terrace is named for the street The Simpsons live on.
20) The Spider-Man villain Electro is bisexual
21) Jar Jar Binks actually (and surprisingly) lived 19 more years after Revenge of the Sith, and didn't die until the planet he retired to, Alderaan, was blown up.
22) There are 11 different colors of Kryptonite
23) The zombies in Night of the Living Dead were originally going to be aliens and/or humans under alien control.
24) Actors considered for the role of Indiana Jones included Nick Nolte, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jeff Bridges, Chevy Chase, Tom Selleck, and Jack Nicholson, while Danny DeVito was considered to play Sallah
25) In the Pokemon anime, Slowpoke requires a Shellder to bite it's tail in order to evolve into Slowbro
26) There are 240 power pellets in every Pac-Man level.
27) There are more followers of the Jedi religion than Scientologists in Britain.
28) Every episode of Arrested Development have "Michael" as the opening word
29) Batman's Cape was originally inspired from some artworks of Leonardo Da Vinci.
30) The Original G.I. Joe figure has a scar across his right cheek. This enables Hasbro to copyright its toys, because otherwise the human figure itself cannot be copyrighted.
31) At one point during development, Godzilla was going to be a giant octopus. He was later changed to a gorilla-whale monster (Which explains the Japanese name Gojira, which translates to gorilla-whale) and eventually a dinosaur.
32) Not counting the remakes, Freddy Krueger has slain 35 children, while Jason Voorhees has killed nearly 140
33) There is a frame of the Paris Hilton sex tape randomly inserted into the end of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
34) There is yet to be a dark-type Pokemon gym
35) In The Simpsons, one of Cletus' kids name is Crystal Meth
36) Wolverine's claws were originally supposed to be just a part of his gloves
37) The dancer that Jabba drops into the Rancor pit in Return of the Jedi loses her top as she falls in.
38) About half of the passage from the Bible that Jules has memorized in Pulp fiction was actually made up by Samuel L Jackson and Quentin Tarantino
39) Nacy watches The Evil Dead in a scene of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street
40) Once Stanley Kubrick moved away from the US, he had a VHS tape of the latest episode of The Simpsons mailed to his home in Europe every week.
41) Images of C-3P0 and R2-D2 appear in every Indiana Jones film.
42) Man-At-Arms' real name is Duncan
43) Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama claims to have lost his medical degree in a volcano.
44) Even though Walt Disney's most famous creation is Mickey Mouse, he was actually terrified of mice.
45) The inside of the Goldenrod City Gym in Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal is in the shape of a Clefairy
46) Kang and Kodos of The Simpsons are named for two "Star Trek" characters - Kang was a Klingon warrior, and Kodos was a mass murderer.
47) Lex Luthor had a hand amputated.
48) The director of the 1985 Transformers movie was the designer of the Lightsaber for the original Star Wars movie and included an homage to the weapon in the former film.
49) The titles of Grand Theft Auto IV and The Price Is Right are written in the exact same font.
50) Chuck Norris once came on a tractor trailer. We now know this trailer as Optimus Prime.
