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• [Actors fact 1] Michael Jackson had over 1,000 unreleased songs on a hard drive at home which Sony bought for $250 Million after he died.

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• [Actors fact 2] French tax collectors were sent to the guillotine in 1789.

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• [Actors fact 3] The R-rated film Planes, Trains and Automobiles would have been rated PG if not for the scene where Steve Martin says "fu*king" 18 times in one minute. Despite the rating, it is the only time in the movie where the word is used.

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• [Actors fact 4] Actor Robert Clary, who played a French prisoner of war in the show Hogan's Heroes, was a Holocaust survivor in real life. He spent 3 years in the Buchenwald concentration camp and survived by entertaining the SS guards every Sunday with a song.

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• [Actors fact 5] There is no known civilization that did not tax. Even the very first known civilization, the Sumerians, recorded their tax history on clay cones.

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• [Actors fact 6] Russell Crowe was once contacted by the FBI about Al Qaeda wanting to kidnap him to take "iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan." Russel Crowe isn't American though. He's originally from New Zealand.

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• [Actors fact 7] The usually blonde Scarlett Johansson was not Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau’s first choice to play Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow who in the comics is a tall Russian redhead. But when he met with her, she had dyed her hair red so he would know she was serious about the part.

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• [Actors fact 8] According to one historian, plane geometry was not invented by Euclid but by ancient tax collectors who wanted to determine land size for harvest taxes.

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• [Actors fact 9] Star Trek's James Doohan ('Scotty') prevented a fan from committing suicide. His support and encouragement inspired her to go back to school and become an electronics engineer.

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• [Actors fact 10] Robin William's son, Zak Williams, has an MBA from Columbia and uses it to help educate inmates at San Quentin prison about finance.

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