The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #24 – Dropping a Penny From the Empire State Building is Deadly

Terminal velocity of a penny is 30-50 mph, which isn’t fast enough to kill a person. It would definitely hurt, though.

Frank Sinatra was offered the lead role in Die Hard.
To thank Robin Williams for his work on Aladdin, Disney sent him a late Pablo Picasso painting.
Jennifer Lopez was the first actress to have a movie and an album hit number one in the same week.
Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”