13 Awesome Facts To Break Out To Break The Ice
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Films have the wonderful ability to transport us far away from our everyday troubles and the toils of our daily lives for at least an hour or two. Not only that, but movies can transport us to faraway lands, complete with wonderful characters and situations.
Sure, "And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next," is the most famous line from Gladiator, but Russell Crowe thought it was trash and sought to do better. Turns out, he uh, couldn't. Awkward.
So strap in, sweet readers, for some absolutely wild, mind bending and jaw dropping facts that you will not see coming. Lord knows we didn't. We're still reeling. Amphibians and reptiles that shoot blood as self defense? Get out of here. And no, sorry Canada, you cannot have the colonel or his 11 delicious herbs and spices.
Here's the whole thing, plus 12 more:
![The surprise in the dinner scene in Rocky Horror Picture Show is genuine. Nobody except Tim Curry knew that he'd pull off the tablecloth to reveal a corpse, so all the actors in the scene were genuinely shocked. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/0/794330.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![Stockard Channing (Rizzo) got an actual hickey from Jeff Conaway in Grease. Conaway, who plays Kenickie Murdoch, gave her one in a makeout session and suggested her character's hickey from Kenickie should really come from him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/9/794329.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair
![Russell Crowe almost didn't say one of Gladiator's most iconic lines. He hated And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next, so he tried to improvise alternatives - but none of them worked, so they weren't used. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/7/794327.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![Westley getting knocked unconscious in The Princess Bride wasn't acting. Cary Elwes told Christopher Guest (Count Rugen) to hit him for real, and it was so real that he passed out and woke up in the hospital. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/1/794331.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
![Jon Heder did all of his character's drawings in Napoleon Dynamite himself. He was inspired by the style of his younger brothers and loner kids who drew a lot and thought they were pretty good at it, but weren't really. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/6/794326.jpg)
Source: San Antonio Current
![One particular Mini car was inspired by a kid wearing his baseball cap backwards. Mini design director Gert Hildebrand said he got the idea for the Mini Coupe Concept's roof when he saw his son wearing a cap that way. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/8/794328.jpg)
Source: Top Gear
![Many times, the Spartans were defeated by a group of 150 gay lovers. A monument to a victory for Thebes They were warriors from the city of Thebes who formed a regiment known as the Sacred Band, and in one battle even destroyed a third of Sparta's army. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/5/794325.jpg)
Source: The Daily Beast
![One Halloween store, Spirit Halloween, spends most of the year scouting. They scout for locations, and spend months negotiating deals to rent those locations as retail spaces for a brief pre-Halloween period. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/4/794324.jpg)
Source: Vox
![Some animals spew blood from various openings as a defense mechanism. For example, some snakes and Horned Lizards spurt blood from their eyes, mouth, and anus. It seems to be pretty good against certain mammals. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/3/794323.jpg)
Source: ScienceDirect
![Colonel Sanders lived in Canada in the '60s and '70s Toronto, - specifically. KFC He even filmed lots of KFC commercials for the Canadian market and tried to speak French, but that didn't really work out too well. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/2/794322.jpg)
Source: Torontoist
![At the start of the 20th century, Paris had a moving sidewalk that went 6 mph. It was over two miles long, and it got nicknamed the wooden serpent - although it's long gone, it turned out to be pretty influential. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/1/794321.jpg)
Source: Gizmodo
![The Legend of Zelda's opening theme was slapped together in one night. ZEAD THE LEGEND OF 01986 NINTENDO They were just going to use Ravel's Bolero, but the copyright wouldn't expire for a month, and they couldn't delay the game that long. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/0/794320.jpg)
Source: NintendoLife
![A Costa Rica town made bees bats, hummingbirds, and butterflies its citizens. Even trees and native plants got citizenship in Curridabat-all intended to make the city greener and turn it into a haven for urban wildlife. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/9/794319.jpg)
Source: The Guardian