Did You Know These Behind-The-Scenes Facts About "Cast Away"?

Many Extras Had AIDS In Real Life

The nonprofit Action Wellness helped the crew find more than 50 extras with HIV and AIDS to appear in the film. Today, only one member of that group is still alive. “I am so happy to be alive, but I have survivor’s guilt,” Suellen Kehler said at the Philadelphia Film Center screening of the film and the documentary short The Last Mile. “I ask myself ‘Why me? Why just me?’”

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • If you heat up a magnet, it will lose its magnetism.
  • In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
  • Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
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