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InStar Warsfour people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing. David Prowse spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't even know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? This phenomenon is known as 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song from the '50s. The singer was actually singing, They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green, but this came off sounding like. They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.


Gone With the Wind is the only Civil War epic ever filmed without a single battle scene.


Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

He never won an Academy Award for directing.


Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain smoked, forty cigars a day in the last years of his life.

He was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.


Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Blues-ology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc, the first ever blues band in England.


Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

Compiled by Cultural Correspondent