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Toy Story facts

Toy Story was orignally called ‘You Are a Toy’
The Pizza Planet delivery truck, which appears in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, also appeared in all three Toy Story films
In their most productive state, Pixar can complete 3.5 minutes of animation a week
Jim Carey was originally casted to voice Buzz Lightyear but Pixar could not afford his fees
Pixar had 300 computers rendering frames 24 hours a day
When an animator is done with a shot (he/she has watched it an average of 3,000 times!), John Lasseter tells them to go pick out a toy as a reward. The number of toys on an animator’s desk demonstrates his prowess.
Buzz Lightyear was first named Lunar Larry
Mattel didn’t want Barbie to be in the movie, thinking it was going to be a flop
The voice of the little green aliens were made with the use of helium gas
The number 95 is seen throughout the movies, referring to the year 1995 when the film was first released
In Andy’s room, some books were names of Pixar’s short films or Pixar staff
Toy Story 3 is the first animation to hit over $1 billion dollars in sales
Andy’s car reads A111 on the front and A113 on the back
The entire animation crew shaved their heads prior to working on Toy Story 3
Andy didn’t have a dad in Toy Story because humans were to expensive to animate

When production began, Starwars was originally known as “Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the journal of the Whills, Saga 1: The Star Wars”
3 actors make up Darth Vader: James Earl Jones (voice), Sebastian Shaw (face), David Prowse (body)
The special effects company “Industrial light and magic” was setup especially to film the movie
The voice of Yoda was Frank Oz, also the voice of Miss Piggy in the muppets
Mark Hamil, who played Luke, damaged his face in a car accident after the primary shooting, making reshoots impossible
10 puppeteers were needed to play Jabba the Hutt

Armadillos always give birth to four identical babies. All four develop from the same egg, like quadruplets
The shell of a baby armadillo is as soft as a human fingernail. As they grow, bone gets deposited under the skin to harden it.
After sex, an armadillo can delay impregnation for up to 2 years
Armadillos like to swim and can even dive underwater. They can hold their breath for over 5 minutes.
They can also climb up fences and trees
Not all armadillos can curl into a ball. Only the 3 banded armadillo can do it.
The USA has the only species of Armadillo that live outside of Latin America.
Armadillos sleep up to 16 hours a day
The word Armadillo in Spanish means “little armoured one”
Armadillos have poor eyesight and so can be easily startled while foraging.
A pound of Armadillo meat contain 780 calories

Despite what Hollywood claims in the film U-571, the Germans’ wartime Enigma code machine was actually captured by the British 6 months before the USA joined World War 2
The first time the Allies saw the secret German Enigma machine wasn’t by stealing it. They actually bought it outright in the German open market in 1927.
It would take 100 machines working around the clock 5.8 years in order to crack the enigma code.

The first message sent via Morse Code was “What hath God wrought?”
The Morse Code distress signal “SOS” was initially “CQD” (“sécu” of sécurité) and means “All stations: distress.”
The first distress code was sent 60 years after its invention and 30 years after the death of its creator Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse was a supporter of slavery

Bashar Al-Assad, the Syrian dictator downloaded Harry Potter films from iTunes using a New York linked American Express

Daylight saving was created by a New Zealander entomologist
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was fist implemented during World War I by the Germans
When it first started, Daylight Savings Time was also called ‘Summer Time’
Some countries like Iceland, Belarus and Russia have switched to ‘Permanent Daylight Saving Time’ (staying on Summer Time all year long)

Graffiti artist David Choe was hired to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first headquarters in Palo Alto in 2005. Sean Parker, then the social network’s president, offered to pay him either in a few thousand dollars in cash, or in Facebook shares. Despite thinking that the site was a ‘ridiculous and pointless’ idea, Choe opted for the shares – and today they are likely to be worth over $200million, making it possibly the most lucrative painting job in history.

Chinese dragons are believed to have exactly 117 scales. 81 of the scales are positive or yang and 36 scales are negative or yin.
Chinese dragons are made from the nine anatomical resemblances of other animals; the horns of a stag, head of a camel, eyes of a rabbit, neck of a snake, belly of a clam, scales of a carp, claws of an eagle soles of a tiger, ears of a cow and on top of his head he has a lump called a Chimu, which he cannot fly without.
Different Chinese dragons include the Winged dragon, Horned dragon, Spiritual dragon, Celestial dragon, Hidden Treasures dragon, Yellow dragon, Coiling dragon (lives in the water), Earth dagon, and the Dragon King. The Dragon King technically is made up for four separate dragons that rule over individual seas of the North, East, South and West
Dragon Years boast the highest childbirth rates by almost 30%
The more toes a dragon has (up to five) the more “regal” it is
Many of China’s emperors believed themselves to be descended from dragons
Chinese have 4 mystical animals; dragon, Phoenix, tortoise and unicorn. The dragon is the only one in the zodiac