“Discover the 49 Heartwarming Facts That Will Wrap You in a Cozy Embrace!”
After Heath Ledger’s death, who was still filming The Imaginariam of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam (writer and director of the film) thought the film was over. That was until he had the idea to for Jude Law, Colin Farrell, and Johnny Depp (all close friends with Ledger) to be brought in to play Ledger’s character after transformations. They all said yes with out hesitation, opted to redirect their wages to Ledger’s family.
Bonus fact, Tom Cruise showed interest in playing one of these character transformations, but was turned down as he had never been a close friend of Ledger’s. Gilliam is quoted saying “I just wanted to keep this [in the] family—it’s as simple as that […] There were people even offering to come and help, they didn’t know Heath. It had to be in the family somehow, I don’t know why; it was my attitude”.
When babies first start to smile, they do it because they notice it makes their caregivers smile back. They do their best to make you happy.
Babies cry in their native language. That is, babies born to French speaking parents cry with different tonal patterns than babies born to parents that speak English or Arabic or German.
Wolves are one of the few mammals that mate for life with one partner.
If your dog is running away from you, pretend to fall down. It will think you’re hurt and come back to you.
Alfred Nobel made the Nobel Peace Prize because he wanted to make up for dynamite, an invention he hoped would make war impossible.
Blind people smile even though they have never seen someone smile before.
When the shooting happened at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, so many people were signing up to donate blood that the blood bank phone service was unusable, and the lines to donate blood at buses were hours long. I literally could not find a way to donate blood. This made me feel a lot better about people, especially after having someone do such a horrible thing the same night I moved to Orlando.
Racing horses would get really nervous and anxious before races. The solution was to get the horse a goat partner, which would calm them down really well.
This is where the phrase ‘gets your goat’ comes from. It means to rile someone up, and people would go and try to steal the goats of horses they bet against to sabotage them.
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