The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th 1964 Billboard singles chart To date they re the only band that has ever accomplished that

`A Separation` won the Oscar for best foreign language film becoming the first Iranian movie to win the honour in 84th edition of Oscars in 2012

Tyra Banks was the first African-American to appear on the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated in 1997 Beyonce Knowles was the second in 2007

Adolf Hitler was 4 days younger to Charlie Chaplin In film The Great Dictator Charlie Chaplin played the role of Adenoid Hynkel(based on Hitler)

During the film Don Juan John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women at the rate of one every 53 seconds

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in `Treasure of Sierra Madre` in 1949

X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different version of the same subject all painted by Leonardo under the final portrait

A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background - when they say walla-walla it looks like they are actually talking

Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage where he was forced to work because he could not afford to rent an art studio

Saul Bellow kept his fiction separate from his essays and criticisms by using a two-typewriter system Costly at first maybe but it definitely kept him organised

The Oscar statuette was designed by MGM`s art director Cedric Gibbons in 1928 The design has remained unchanged except for getting a higher pedestal in the 1940s

In the 1991 Cannes Film Festival a special Supporting Actor award was created just for Samuel L Jackson for his performance in Jungle Fever as a crack cocaine addict

Just after picking up his Oscar for his 1982 animated short film Tango producer Zbigniew Rybczynski got into a scuffle with a security guard and had a brief stint behind bars

Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall each win Oscars for best sound editing in rare tie in 2013 The last Oscars tie was in 1969 when Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn tied for Best Actress

Akon s full name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam he is a Senegalese American R B and hip hop recording artist songwriter record producer and businessman