Bet You Didn’t Know These Facts About The “Alien” Films

Fox Didn’t Want To Cast Naoomi Rapace

Rapace isn’t a native English speaker, and she isn’t particularly well known to Western audiences. She worked with a coach to learn English and perfect an accent, though Elizabeth Shaw’s nationality certainly wasn’t paramount to the film.

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  • The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
  • In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
  • You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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