Helen Keller had a Japanese Akita dog named Kamikaze-go; She was the first to bring an Akita dog to the United States
Roger Babson thought of gravity as his sworn enemy and tried to develop a system that could shield people and objects from it
The myth that the Great Wall of China is visible from space originated before anyone had ever been into space
James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in “Babe,” became a vegan and outspoken animal advocate because of the movie
Louis Armstrong popularized scat singing after he dropped the lyric sheet while recording the song “Heebie Jeebies” and started improvising syllables
Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a conference room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings
The producers of ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ spent $500,000 to restore the decaying Alcatraz prison and recreate the cold atmosphere