Hollywood’s Most Iconic & Beloved Animal Stars

The Direwolves

In the mega-hit “Game of Thrones,” each of the Stark children adopt a direwolf when the pups mother was killed. While they look like wolves, they were actually a group of specially-trained Northern Inuit Dogs, a crossbred relative of the Siberian Husky. Sansa Stark’s direwolf, Lady, was adopted by the actress after filming when they found out she had no home.

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The More You Know

  • Only two national flags have the color purple on them.
  • When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
  • Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be known as Boston, Oregon.
  • Peanuts can be used to make dynamite.
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