Although kilts were worn by many characters in the box office hit Braveheart, the movie was set in the 13th century—five centuries before kilts would come into common use.

Eight different male snowy owls played the role of Hedwig the Owl in the Harry Potter movie series—while the owl is, in both the books and the movies, female, males were used because they have more white feathers and are smaller (and thus were easier for the young actors to handle).

Canada didn’t adopt a national flag until 1965, nearly a century after it became a country in 1867.