"Strait" as in "straitjacket" means "close fitting."

98% of all adoptions in Japan are of males aged 25-30 so that family businesses can remain within the family. Blood heirs are under the constant pressure of knowing that if they under-perform, they'll be replaced.

There were four female pilots cast and filmed for Return of the Jedi's climactic battle of Endor. Two were A-Wing pilots and two piloted an X-Wing, with one, played by Vivienne Chandler, having an entire page of dialogue.

Watching Smokey and the Bandit was one of Alfred Hitchcock's guilty pleasures.

95% of all the stars in existence today were formed during the past 11 billion years. The rate at which new stars are being produced in galaxies today is barely 3% of the rate 11 billion years ago.