Elephants so strongly dislike bees (and their trunk-inflaming stings) that they have a specific warning call that tells other elephants there are beehives nearby.

Thanks to metal shortages during World War II, there was a three year span of time where Oscar recipients received a plaster statue painted gold; after the war, the Academy replaced the plaster statues with the traditional gold-plated metal ones.

The Hoover Dam construction project (started in 1931) was the first construction project in the world where the workers were required to wear hard hats.

Bolaji Badejo, the actor inside the alien suit in the 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, took Tai Chi and mime lessons in order to give the alien the slow, smooth, and deliberate movements that thoroughly terrified audiences around the world.