The sound of reel-to-reel tape being run backward and forward was used to help create the frightening bird squawking sounds in the film.
Chief Bogo's name is taken from the Swahili word 'mbogo,' meaning buffalo.
A world-record (at that time) 103 cars were wrecked during filming.
In M. Night Shyamalan's early drafts of the script, the Bruce Willis character was a crime scene photographer, not a child psychologist.
The sunglasses worn by the main characters are the Ray-Ban 'Predator 2' glasses. After the film's release, Ray-Ban reported that sales of these glasses tripled, from $1.6 million to $5 million.
Martial arts expert and fight choreographer Michael M. Vendrell worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the film, and by the end of production Vendrell estimated that Schwarzenegger had become a second degree black belt.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson told 'Entertainment Weekly' magazine that the fake oil used throughout the movie included 'the stuff they put in chocolate milkshakes at McDonald's.'
A jet engine from a Boeing 707 was used to generate wind in some scenes.
In an interview given at the time of the film's release, Liza Minnelli said you could tell she was the star of the [film title] in which the movie is set, because she's the only performer with shaved armpits.
The scenes involving explosions and fire after the destruction of Buenos Aires were actually videos taken from the Oakland Hills fire in October of 1991.
The purple goo, which most notably covers Alec Baldwin's character at the end of the movie, was made with chicken fat dyed purple.
When Fletcher literally beats himself up in the restroom, no sound effects were used. Those are really the sounds of Jim Carrey's head slamming into the urinal, floor, and walls.
Originally the plot was to have the characters visit, and therefore accidentally cause, all of history's greatest tragedies (the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg, the Black Plague, etc.).
The Vatican's official newspaper 'L'Osservatore Romano' gave a negative review of this film saying that it 'mishandles the delicate questions raised by... the battle eternal between good and evil.'
The zipper scene is based on an actual incident when the Farrelly brothers' parents had to help a young man who caught himself in his zipper at one of their sisters' parties.
Due to his portrayal of astronaut Jim Lovell in this movie, Tom Hanks had an asteroid '12818 Tomhanks (1996 GU8)' named in his honor.
One scene in the film takes place in a club exhibiting living art. Robert Downey Jr. once worked for an NYC night club as a living set piece.
The real life incident on which the film was based became a part of police training on how to deal with hostage situations and crowds that were out of control.
The credits, concluding with Director Sergio Leone, last over ten minutes into the start of the film.
Most of the paintings that can be seen hanging in the background were actually painted by James Franco.
The film's concept derives from a recurring nightmare the director used to have where he would be stalked by a predator that continually walked slowly towards him.
Scott Howard's house was filmed on the same block as George McFly's and Lorraine Baines's 1950s houses from 'Back to the Future.'
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Quiz Updated Jan 10, 2017
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