Daniel Day-Lewis saw the ghost of his father while performing Hamlet. He collapsed, sobbed, and hasn’t performed onstage since!

Day-Lewis is of British-Irish descent and is a method actor, which means that he gets into the character he is playng, feeling the same emotions that the character would in the situations he plays. It is said that he stays in character for the entire duration of movie shoots. He is also one of the most selective actors and has only starred in five films since 1997!

In 1989 Day-Lewis starred as Hamlet for the National Theatre, but collapsed in the middle of the scene where Hamlet sees the ghost of his father. After sobbing, Day-Lewis left and refused to go back on stage. He had seen the ghost of his own late father and he has refused to perform onstage since.

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Congress only has to work one day a year!

If you think your representatives in Congress don't get a lot done now, just imagine if they stuck to the bare minimum required. The Twentieth Amendment states that they must meet at least once a year.

This meeting is supposed to take place on January 3rd at noon. But if they're too busy, the law allows them to appoint a different day. The amendment also established January 20 as Inauguration Day. Before then, newly elected presidents had to wait four months before taking office on March 4.

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A proposed amendment to the US constitution would have put any act of war up to popular vote!

Imagine how different US history would have been if this 1916 proposal would have gone through. The proposal went even further and said that any person who voted "Yes" would automatically be enlisted into the army! Of course, the US constitution is extremely hard to change, and the success rate of amendments is less than 1% so it failed to pass. Here's a few other interesting (aka crazy) proposed amendments: 

• 1876: an attempt to abolish the United States Senate

• 1893: renaming this nation the “United States of the Earth”

• 1912: making marriage between races illegal

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Tom Hanks’s first movie was a horror film in which he was supposed to be killed!

In the original script for He Knows You’re Alone, ‘Elliot’ (Hanks) was intended as a casualty of the movie’s killer. However, young Tom was such a talented and charismatic actor that the writers decided to cut his murder from the script!
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A boy killed his mother because of a video game!

Although video game addiction is not yet formally recognized as a diagnosable disorder, it may have affected many people. One of the most famous cases of video game addiction gone wrong was in 2007, when Daniel Petric was arrested for shooting his father and killing his mother over an argument about the video game Halo.