Bücher von James Egan

Some of Doctor Doom's dialogue is paraphrased from David Cameron's speeches.Lex Luthor's first name wasn't revealed for 20 years.Doctor Octopus was the first supervillain to unmask Spider-Man.Harley Quinn originated from Batman: The Animated Series, not the comics.Mystique had a son with Sabretooth.Ra's Al Ghul is over 600 years old.Despite what many people believe, Apocalypse is not the first mutant.20 years after Two-Face debuted, he only appeared five times in the comics.Bullseye killed somebody by throwing a poodle at them.Doomsday has killed millions of Green Lanterns.The Red Skull used to be a bellhop.The Riddler has a mental illness than renders him incapable of lying.Elektra's name was misspelt upon her debut.The Joker was nearly killed after one issue.Ultron used to be called the Crimson Cowl.Zod was a member of the Suicide Squad.Venom was originally called The Alien Costume.The Penguin is sometimes modelled off Donald Trump.

Half of 28 Days Later had to be scrapped due to a plothole.The Exorcist prequel was so bad, the entire film was reshot from start to finish. This is the only time this has happened in cinematic history.The director of Get Out shot scenes while doing the voice of Barack Obama and Forest Whitaker.An American Werewolf in London was the first film ever to win an Oscar for its makeup.It only took eight days to shoot The Blair Witch Project.The plot of Final Destination was meant to be used for an episode of The X-Files.Mel Brooks didn't tell anybody he produced The Fly because he was worried people would think the film was a comedy.The inventor, Thomas Edison produced the first Frankenstein film.A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is very popular with the LGBTQ community.

Christopher Walken nearly played Han Solo.Donald Trump's favorite movie is Citizen Kane.Originally, Aladdin was meant to be Chinese.The title character in ET - The Extra-Terrestrial is called Zreck.Over a million props were used for the film, Ben-Hur.The dog in The Wizard of Oz got paid more than some of the actors.The iconic "BWONG" sound heard in the Inception trailer is never used in the film.In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn is 87.Mary Poppins didn't coin the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."The ending of Planet of the Apes is completely different in the original novel.Pulp Fiction was nearly called Black Mask.Most of the "snakes" in Raiders of the Lost Ark are actually legless lizards.This Is Spinal Tap is the only film on IMDb that is rated out of 11.Most of the story from The Matrix was stolen from a comic book called The Invisibles.

In the original script of The Lion King, Mufasa was the one who cut Scar's face.Walt Disney HATED the spaghetti-eating scene in Lady and the Tramp. It is now one of the most beloved scenes in Disney history.Toy Story only cost $30 million.Christopher Barnes was only 16 when he voiced Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid.In Frozen, Elsa was supposed to have blue hair.The villain of The Incredibles was supposed to be an alien called Xerek.The merchant in the beginning of Aladdin is the Genie.It took ten years to make Alice in Wonderland.Gru's appearance in Despicable Me is based on an emperor penguin.Disney were certain that Finding Nemo would fail.The Prince in Beauty and the Beast was 11 when the Enchantress cursed him.If Cinderella flopped, Disney would've gone bankrupt.Inside Out is the first Pixar film that doesn't have a villain.Walt Disney's favourite Disney film was Bambi.Elvis nearly starred in The Jungle Book.

In one of the Jaws films, the shark roars... even though sharks don't have lungs.The kid who plays Damien in The Omen punched the director in his private parts during his audition.Johnny Depp made his film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street.Kathy Bates is the first actress to win an Oscar for acting in a horror movie.The word "pharaoh" is misspelt in the film, The Mummy.In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies rise from their graves after being exposed to "Venusian radiation."A meteor appears for a second in Jaws.Stephen King was taking cocaine while directing the film, Maximum Overdrive.Cat People was the first film to have a jump-scare.Hugo Weaving was strongly considered for the role of Pennywise in IT.

Deadpool has teamed up with Sherlock Holmes, Mowgli, The Little Mermaid, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Moby Dick.Wonder Woman had a job selling tacos.Black Panther was nearly called Coal Tiger.Captain America has turned into a cat, a vampire, and a werewolf.Iron Man took over SHIELD. He found it so stressful, he had to see a counsellor.Robin had a fax machine built into his boot.Magneto suffers bipolar.After Batman seemingly died, Commissioner James Gordon became the new Batman.Superman destroyed an entire solar system by sneezing.Marvel bosses were certain Spider-Man would fail because people are afraid of spiders.The word "Brainiac" was coined in a Superman comic.Magneto ripped Wolverine's metal skeleton out of his body.Green Arrow has many trick arrows including a Donut Arrow.Doctor Strange teamed up with a duck to battle an evil book.

Despite Toy Story's legacy, it didn't win a single Oscar.Somebody counted every single spot in 101 Dalmatians. There's a lot.Animators stopped working on The Lion King because they were certain it would fail. It made over $900 million.The original Cinderella story is 2,700 years old.The trailer for Lady and the Tramp spoilt the ending.It took 28 years to make The Thief and the Cobbler.Everybody mispronounces Mowgli's name in The Jungle Book.Walt Disney hated Peter Pan.There was meant to be 27 Emotions in Inside Out.Most of Disney's classics like Pinocchio and Bambi made very little money because they came out during World War II.

An entire neighbourhood in Istanbul learned sign language to surprise a deaf man who lived there.Legendary actor, Steve Buscemi, saved dozens of people during 9/11.Leonardo Da Vinci used to buy caged animals just to set them free.Disneyland was rejected 302 times. It now makes millions every day.Morgan Freeman didn't get his first big acting break until he was 52. He has been one of the biggest stars in Hollywood for decades.Nelson Mandela set up the first black-run law firm in South Africa.A woman celebrated her 103rd birthday by volunteering at a Senior Centre dressed up as Wonder Woman.Illiteracy has nearly halved in the United States in the last 15 years.James Dyson tweaked his Dyson vacuum cleaner 5,000 times before he got it right.The window washers at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh dress up as superheroes to cheer up the patients.Robin Williams used to anonymously donate his earnings from standup comedy to a local food bank.

England used to be called Albion.An ancient computer was invented in Greece in 150 BC.Blue paint originated from Afghanistan.New Zealand was the first country that allowed women to vote.Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland.You can pay people in Japan to apologize on your behalf.Jeans are banned in North Korea.The Vatican has its own soccer team.You can buy marijuana milkshakes in India.Heroin isn't illegal in Portugal.Dogs are taxed in Switzerland.There's a Venezuelan waterfall that is 17 times longer than Niagara Falls.South Africa has three capitals.Russia produces more diamonds than any other country by far.In Mexico, artist can pay taxes with their paintings.Christmas was illegal in the United States until 1836.

All the actors in Broadchurch were told they might be the killer.Although Kiefer Sutherland plays the lead in 24, he's never seen an episode of the show.It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was meant to be called Jerks.Matt Smith nearly played the lead in Sherlock.George RR Martin said his turtle inspired him to write Game of Thrones.Phoebe and Chandler were meant to be supporting roles in Friends.In South Park, Scott Tenerman is Cartman's half-brother.Seinfeld was rejected many times for being "too Jewish."The Upside-Down in Stranger Things was never supposed to be seen.The Wire wasn't nominated for a single Emmy.Zombie culture doesn't exist in The Walking Dead.All the MacGyverisms in MacGyver are scientifically possible.Nobody says "Beam me up Scotty" in the original Star Trek series or films.Although Michael Jackson starred in The Simpsons, he wasn't allow to sing on the show.Mr. Bean is an alien.

When Cate Blanchett was asked if she had been on Neighbors, she said, "No, I'm an actress."When Charlize Theron was 15, her father tried to shoot her and her mother with a shotgun. Her mother killed him in self-defense and wasn't charged.Christopher Lee starred in over 260 films. He played a villain in 85%% of the films he has starred in.Hugh Laurie plays the piano, guitar, drums, harmonica, and saxophone.Despite what many people believe, Hugo Weaving is Nigerian, not Australian.James Dean's tombstone was stolen twice.James Earl Jones had such a severe speech impediment when he was a teenager that he became a selective mute for nearly eight years.Sandra Bullock designed seatbelts for dogs.Ralph Fiennes is related to Prince Charles.Mark Wahlberg was supposed to be on the plane that crashed into the Twin Towers during 9/11.

In Frozen, Elsa never speaks to Kristoff.It took three years to animated the stampede scene in The Lion King.Jim Carrey auditioned for the prince in The Little Mermaid.King Louie doesn't appear in The Jungle Book novel.Belle's dress in Beauty and the Beast is based on Dorothy's dress from The Wizard of Oz.The Toy Story franchise has many references to the horror classic, The Shining.It took one day to write the script for the 1986 film, Transformers: The Movie.Tangled is, by far, the most expensive animated film ever. It cost $260 million.The two creators of Spider-Man died the exact same year that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released.The dwarves in Snow White and Seven Dwarfs were nearly called Crabby, Flabby, Jumpy, Stubby, and Hoppy.

Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the legs with a machine gun while wrestling a shark.George RR Martin can only type with one finger at a time.Arthur Conan Doyle passionately believed in fairies.Bram Stoker couldn't walk until he was seven.CS Lewis couldn't use a typewriter.Charles Dickens regularly visited the morgue and stared at the dead for hours.Edgar Allen Poe made $9 for writing The Raven.John Milton created more English words than anyone else in history.Lewis Carrol wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to show how stupid mathematics was.Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman in one day.There are two naked women hidden on the front cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby.James Joyce wrote Ulysses in crayon.JRR Tolkien was kidnapped when he was a toddler.JK Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in 1990; seven years before the release of her first book.

It used to be mandatory in North Korea for teachers to play the accordion.Melons are cuboid-shaped in Japan.In Russia, teachers used to be paid in vodka.Mozambique is the only country with a gun on its flag.The mobile games, Minecraft and Candy Crush, come from Sweden.In France, it's illegal to name a pig "Napoleon."80%%%% of billiard balls come from Belgium.People from Monaco live longer than anyone else in the world.Canada is the most educated country in the world.US currency used to read, "Mind Your Business."Kissing used to be illegal in England.70%%%% of all bacon comes from the Netherlands.There are more Catholics in Brazil than any other country.Nobody in Ireland spoke England until the 12th century.When you earn a PhD in Finland, you receive a top hat and a sword.

The Lion King takes place before humanity existed.Before he was famous, Bryan Cranston did voiceovers for several animes including Ghost in the Shell and Street Fighter II.Beauty and the Beast is based on a 1,800 year old story.The Minions are based on the Jawas from Star Wars.Toy Story was supposed to be a musical.The Jungle Book is the most successful film in German history.Sleeping Beauty wasn't released on video for 27 years.Aladdin's lamp appears in Zootopia.Frozen was nearly made in the 1940s.The actor who voices Bambi grew up to become a Marine and a drill instructor.The final scene in The Little Mermaid was inspired by Die Hard.

Why doesn't Cinderella's glass slippers vanish at the stroke of midnight like the rest of her clothes?In Home Alone, why doesn't Kevin just ring the police?In Aladdin, why doesn't Jafar use his hypnotic staff to make Jasmine fall in love with him?How did Edward Scissorhands drag blocks of ice to his attic?Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard if he lived in the jungle his entire life?In Cars, why do all vehicles have doors if nobody drives them?In Thor: Ragnarok, how come Thor can be electrocuted if he is the God of Thunder?In Memento, how come Leonard remembers that he has amnesia?If the ghosts in Pirates of the Caribbean can't eat, why is their ship filled with food?In The Matrix, how does Neo survive getting his belly button ripped open?In Toy Story, why does Buzz Lightyear freeze when humans are nearby if he doesn't think he's a toy?How come no one can figure out Bruce Wayne is Batman when the Bat-Signal is on the roof of his house?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's father fought with the Nazis.Danny DeVito was the first choice to play the title character in the 1993 film, Super Mario Bros.Although Fred Astaire is most well-known for his tap-dancing, a lot of people don't know that the sound of his tap-dancing was dubbed in.Carrie Fisher was paid to fix plot holes in dozens of movies.Charlie Sheen debuted in a film with George Clooney that has never been released.Haley Joel Osment was nearly cast in the title role in the Harry Potter series when the films were going to be directed by Steven Spielberg.Michael J. Fox's middle name is... Andrew.Both of Jack Black's parents are rocket scientists.Matthew Broderick was involved in a car crash that killed somebody.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was nearly called Guardians of the Galaxy: Another Movie With Them.The Chinese poster for the Justice League shows the team killing Marvel superheroes.There is a rip-off of Suicide Squad called Sinister Squad.James Franco and Tobey Maguire didn't get on while filming Spider-Man.The hardest thing to animate in Deadpool was the scene where Colossus vomits.X-Men was rewritten 28 times.To avoid spoilers for Batman v Superman, four fake scripts were leaked online.Captain America was almost a comedy.Superman causes $2 trillion worth of damage at the end of Man of Steel.Michael Jackson wanted to play Spider-Man.Stan Lee believes the 2015 Fant4stic film failed because he wasn't in it.Francis Ford Coppola hated Avengers: Age of Ultron so much, he quit filmmaking.

A baby fetus has a heartbeat after ten days.The liver has 300 functions.Birthmarks can be hereditary.Nobody knows why we have blood types.Sea coral can be used in bone graft surgery.It's impossible for a contact lens to get stuck behind your eye.There are at least nine useless organs. The appendix isn't one of them.There are absolutely no muscles in your fingers.Some scientists believe the gut has a second brain.Teeth can survive lava.You have taste buds in your ears.Nobody has a clue how many muscles the human body has.There are seven types of twins.Men and women experience different symptoms before they have a heart attack.When a person gets a kidney transplant, their old kidneys are usually not removed.There is only one muscle that can't get tired.You can survive without an intestine.It is possible to survive with 90%% of your brain removed.

Kakistocracy - A government run by the worst peopleAbsquatulate - To leave without saying goodbyeAcyrologia - Improper use of a wordAnecdoche - A conversation where everybody is talking but nobody is listeningBaisemain - Kiss on the handCagamosis - An unhappy marriageFanfaron - An empty boastJettatura - An evil stareLethologica - The inability to remember a specific wordMammothrept - Spoilt childNodus Tollens - The realization that your life doesn't make sense to you anymoreOchiba - A piece of art made from fallen leavesPandiculate - Stretching and yawningPercussive Maintenance - The act of bashing something over and over until it worksQuietus - Finishing strokeRaconteur - A person who tells entertaining anecdotes

In Siberia, it used to be illegal to make excuses.The entire country of Estonia has free Wi-Fi.Roses are black in Turkey.In China, it's illegal to reincarnate without the government's permission.Despite what many people believe, Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia.Iceland is considered to have the happiest people in the world.The widest pyramid in the world is in Mexico.In India, cops are paid more if they have a moustache.You can be stopped from entering New Zealand for being obese.Germans invented Christmas trees, Fanta, and gummy bears.Egypt has more landmines than any other country.The first Western film shown in North Korea was Bend It Like Beckham.There is a bar in Tokyo where you can drink with penguins.The US was nearly called The United States of Earth.

Anthony Hopkins has dreadful dyslexia and has to read scripts up to 250 times out loud.Ben Affleck realized he was famous when someone threw a can at him and said, "You suck, Affleck!"Brad Pitt used to work as a dancing chicken at El Pollo Loco in Hollywood.Before portraying Walter White in Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston starred in the anime, Street Fighter II.Steve Buscemi used to be a wrestler.Will Smith can solve a Rubik's cube in less than a minute.Tom Hanks agreed to star in Cloud Atlas because his character gets to kill a critic who hates his work. He said that this is something he always wanted to do in real life.Samuel L. Jackson held Martin Luther King's father hostage. He was also an usher at Martin Luther King's funeral.Christopher Walken used to be a lion tamer.

Steve Buscemi nearly played Freddy Krueger.The ship in Alien was meant to be called The Snark.Eddie Murphy was meant to play the lead in Get Out.Evil Dead was turned into a Broadway musical in 2006.The Fly was turned into an opera in 2008.Friday the 13th was nearly called Long Night at Camp Blood.People complained about the Frankenstein film because it was too different from the novel.George A. Romero forgot to copyright Night of the Living Dead for 21 years.The theme song of Dracula is from Swan Lake.Jaws was meant to be called Stillness in the Water.

El deporte más peligroso no es el fútbol americano. Es volar una cometa.El mapa del mundo es impreciso.Los silenciadores no existen.Todos pronuncian "Monte Everest" incorrectamente.El Viejo Oeste no era nada como lo imaginamos.Los Illuminati existieron durante solamente ocho años.Los satanistas no adoran a Satanás.A Abraham Lincoln no le importaba la gente de color.Amelia Earhart no desapareció misteriosamente.Egipto no tiene no la mayor cantidad de pirámides ni la más grande. La radiación no es peligrosa.No sabemos nada de los druidas.Las Cataratas del Niágara no son las más altas cascadas.Las Islas Canarias no se llaman así por los canarios.No todos los piratas eran criminales. Algunos de ellos eran agentes del gobierno.Los Rastafari no se llaman a sí mismos "Rastafari".El sol no está ardiendo.Los amish (menonitas) sí usan electricidad.

This book is a compilation of 1000 Facts about Historic Figures Vol. 1-3Stalin executed scientists because they didn't believe him that plants can be Communists.Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.Lenin died when part of his brain turned to stone.Princess Diana once visited a gay bar dressed as a man.Martin Luther King won a Grammy.The Queen of England owns all the dolphins in British waters.Albert Einstein couldn't drive.Galileo didn't believe in comets.Aristotle thought the Moon was alive.Florence Nightingale popularized pie-charts.Alexander Graham Bell tried to teach his dog how to talk.

An algorithm cast Kevin Spacey for House of Cards.Rob McElheney gained 50lbs for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia because he thought it would be funny.Stranger Things was supposed to be called Montauk.No two zombies in The Walking Dead have the same design.In the Game of Thrones books, Tyrion has no nose.Matthew Broderick was meant to play Walter White in Breaking Bad.Jack Bauer kills 309 people in 24.Tobias from Arrested Development is secretly black.The Big Bang Theory was banned in China.Monica and Joey were meant to be the main love story in Friends.In Family Guy, Meg's full name is Megatron Griffin.Doctor Who was nearly cancelled after one episode.Martin Scorsese absolutely loves Fawlty Towers.Will Smith was so poor before starring in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, his only mode of transport was an engineless scooter.

The first series on HBO was Fraggle Rock.The show, Friends coined the term "friend zone."The premise for Knight Rider was made up as a joke.All the main actors of The Walking Dead have a Last Supper on the day they film their death scene.The first and last conversation in Seinfeld is about a button.Homer Simpson is based on Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.The Big Bang Theory was meant to be called Lenny, Penny, and Kenny.Thomas the Tank Engine was nominated for two BAFTAs.Breaking Bad was remade in Mexico.The show, Wonder Woman was criticised because the title character shows her back.The Sopranos was meant to be a film.Despite what many sources say, Star Trek is not the first show to have an interracial kiss.The story of Stranger Things is based on a real project the CIA committed where they researched telekinesis and telepathy.Kit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. His great-grandfather invented the flushing toilet.

Leprosy and halitosis don't exist.Anemia is not caused by a lack of iron.Your teeth can explode.Men can develop breasts.You can die from being too happy.Making puns and being a perfectionist are recognized disorders.Tooth decay is contagious.There is a disorder that makes you incapable of sadness.You can be allergic to water."Running amok" is a classified disorder.The best way to pass kidney stones is to ride the rollercoaster, Big Thunder Mountain, in Disney World.Although Usain Bolt is one of the fastest people ever, he has a curved spine.There's a ten-minute test to see if a child suffers autism.Some dwarves are immune to diabetes and cancer.There's a condition that makes you drunk even if you don't drink alcohol.Smallpox is not the only disease to be eradicated.In the film, The Little Mermaid, Ariel suffers a condition called Identity Annihilation.Doctors believed polio was caused by eating ice-cream.Your brain can grow teeth.

Deadpool claims to have a "Chainsaw Sense" that warns him when he is being stabbed with a chainsaw.Superman once turned into a lion.The writer of Games of Thrones wrote several letters to Marvel about the Fantastic Four to point out some plot holes in the stories.Once, Batman turned into a mummy.Apocalypse used to be the leader of the X-Men.The Joker was the ambassador of Iran.George Bush, Oprah, Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela attended Black Panther's wedding.Wonder Woman moved the Sun with her lasso.Captain America doesn't know how to use a SmartPhone.Marvel and DC Comics were both published by the same person.The Hulk fought a dinosaur in the Wild West.Lex Luthor was one of the first fictional characters to use an atomic bomb.The X-Men were nearly called The Merry Mutants.The Hulk can survive being decapitated.Pink Kryptonite turns Superman gay.

Superman was nearly played by Muhammad Ali.Jack Nicholson was paid $60 million to play the Joker.When he was a teenager, Robert Downey Jr. bullied a kid for reading Iron Man comics.In China, Guardians of the Galaxy is called Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team.Oprah Winfrey nearly played Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad.Deadpool was in development for 16 years.Wonder Woman was nearly played by Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Megan Fox, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Beyoncé.Chris Evans turned down Captain America three times.The tagline for Justice League was "Unite the Seven" even though there are six superheroes in the film.Jerry Seinfeld convinced Hugh Jackman to retire from the X-Men series.Shawarma sales skyrocketed after The Avengers was released.An alternative ending for Amazing Spider-Man 2 shows that Peter Parker's father is alive.Tom Hiddleston auditioned for the role of Thor.Build-A-Bear sales skyrocketed after Avengers: Endgame.