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Jay-Z's name came from older rappers saying that he was 'jazzy.'

It has been rumored that Jay-Z, also known as Shawn Carter, got his moniker from the J and Z subway lines near his home station in Brooklyn. However, this has been proven not to have been possible, considering the Z line was not added until 1988, well after Carter was out of high school. The name is also often said to be derived from Jaz-O, his rap mentor, but Jay is quick to deny any correlation.

More details for why Jay-Z is not named after the subway.

The greatest known age difference in a marriage is 83 years.

In November 2006, the Malaysian newspaper the Straits Times reported that 105-year-old Sudar Marto had married 22-year-old Ely Maryulianti Rahmat in September of that year! At the time, Marto was still married to his 69-year-old wife. However, the wife welcomed Ely into their marriage because she was bedridden and appreciated the care Ely could provide for both she and her husband.
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The Joker's peculiar tongue flip in The Dark Knight started as Heath Ledger's own habit.

In order to form the villain's scars, Ledger had to wear prosthetics on his cheeks down around his mouth. As is often the case with artificial additions to the body, he formed a habit of feeling the material with his tongue. Someone on the set, maybe even Heath himself, must have liked the way this quirk looked, because it grew from a bad habit into a deliberate eccentricity of the character.

Another piece of trivia about the Joker's appearance: Ledger himself is said to have come up with the character's makeup design using white face paint and other cosmetics from a drugstore. Once the look was accepted, the film's makeup team was responsible for replicating Heath's original look each time they filmed!
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McDonald's has unique menu items in every country. In Portugal, you can order soup!

More examples: in India (where much of the population does not eat beef) the restaurant offers such fare as the Chicken Maharaja Mac and the potato-patty McAloo Tikki Burger. This does not mean that McDonald's has replaced its traditional offerings in these locations - they merely supplement their menu with a bit of localized flair in many places. You can order the popular Caldo Verde soup in Portugal, a Quiche de Queljo in Brazil, and have some Red Bean Pie for dessert in Hong Kong (yes, red beans are a common dessert item there). Italian McDonald's restaurants use local cheese producers for its Parmigiano Reggiano burger, and in France they serve a burger on a stone oven-baked Ciabatta roll.

It's good to see that Mickey D's is mixing things up a bit, we're just unhappy that each of these items is not preceded with "Mc" - what's the deal with that?? I want a McQuiche and a McSoup!
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Check out this list of the 40 weirdest McDonald's menu items from around the world. Personal favorites include the Banana Pie, Chicken Porridge, the McLobster roll, and the McRice Burger. In Germany, McDonald's sells beer.

When adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind made more more domestically than Avatar and The Dark Knight combined.

When adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind made more more domestically than Avatar and The Dark Knight combined.

Gone With the Wind's 1939 earnings of $139 million does not seem like very much when compared with the modern totals of Avatar with $760 million and The Dark Knight at $533 million. However, you must consider the fact that today's average movie ticket costs over 32 times the price of tickets in 1939! Once you level the playing field by adjusting the total sales for modern-day ticket prices, Gone With the Wind comes in at over $1.6 billion, while Avatar and The Dark Knight only managed $779 million and $594.9 million, respectively.

In fact, Avatar and The Dark Knight are pretty far down on the list! Check out this list of top grossing movies in order of inflation-adjusted domestic grosses. Avatar sold fewer tickets than Star Wars, The Sound of Music, and even 101 Dalmatians.