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

  • An 11-year-old is responsible for naming Pluto.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • Pizza only became popular in the United States after American troops occupying Italy during World War 2 became hooked on it and then popularized it back home.
  • 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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