
Gene Autry is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (film, television, music, radio, and live performance)

While he was in graduate school, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a stripper to earn extra money.

“Where the Wild Things Are” was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn’t draw them.

John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, planted thousands of apple trees on U.S. soil. But the apples on those trees were much more bitter than the ones you’d find in the supermarket today. He didn’t expect his fruits to be eaten whole, but rather made into hard apple cider.