Film critic Leonard Maltin is considered by many to be the definitive expert on The Little Rascals/Our Gang series and the history and fates of the child actors who appeared in those short films.
The characters of Leonard and Sheldon in Big Bang Theory are named in honor of actor/producer Sheldon Leonard.
Elmore Leonard refused to use a word processor. He wrote all his first drafts in longhand, then rewrote on a typewriter.
Jack Kerouac typed On the Road on a single long scroll of teletype paper, single spaced, with no margins or paragraph breaks.
Truman Capote famously said about Kerouac’s writing technic: That’s not writing, that’s typing.
Harry S Truman started as a Private in the Missouri National Guard, and 37 years later he left the military as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Currently, there are three private ranks in the US Army, Private E-1 with no rank shown on the uniform, Private E-2 who has one chevron, and Private E-3, whose rank is a chevron with a rocker underneath.
There are three New Year’s in Thailand: January 1, Chinese New Year (January or February) and Thai New Year (April 13-15).
Tex-Thai food was, when I was last in Dallas, Texas, a hot new dining trend.
U.S. science fiction writer Somtow P. Sutchuritkul (who also writes horror as S. P. Somtow) is also a well-regarded classical composer and is distantly related to the Thai royal family.
Cmdr. Spock was First Officer and Science Officer of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701. Although the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, apparently did not have a Science Officer, as such, Lt. Cmdr. Data usually functioned in that capacity.
The US Navy ranks of Lt Cmdr and Commander are equivalent, respectively, to the US Army and Marine Corps ranks of Major and Lieutenant Colonel. The Navy Captain is equivalent to the full-bird Colonel.
The U.S. Marine Corps is the only branch of the U.S. armed forces that has the rank of lance corporal.
The oldest weapons still in service in the United States Armed Forces belong to Marines: the Mameluke Sword.
Marine officers carry the Mameluke Sword, which was originally given to Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon in 1805 by a Mameluke chieftain in North Africa.
Adopted in 1859, the NCO Sword is carried by Marine Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) and Staff Noncommissioned Officers (SNCOs). Used for ceremonial purposes, the M1859 NCO Sword was bestowed to NCOs and SNCOs by the 6th Commandant, appointed on January 7, 1859, Colonel John Harris, in recognition of their leadership in combat.
In Pat Conroy’s novel The Great Santini, a Marine aviator is revealed to be a great warrior, a very brave man, and a terrible, abusive husband and father. The novel is loosely autobiographical.
Oh, please no. 
In play: Pat Morita is one of only four actors to have been nominated for a Razzie for playing a character for which he was previously Oscar-nominated, for his Mr. Miyagi character from the Karate Kid series. The others are Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young, all for Rocky IV or Rocky V.
Adam Sandler’s 2011 film “Jack and Jill” set the record for the most Razzies won.It won in every single category.
In 1883, in Santa Cruz, CA, Judge James Harvey Logan accidentally created the first hybrid of the red raspberry crossed with the blackberry. The result is called the loganberry.
Harvey was an imaginary giant rabbit which only Jimmy Stewart could see.
Jimmy Stewart attained the rank of Brigadier General in the US Air Force Reserves.