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Facts 3991-4020

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Fact #3991
Keith David who voices Sal-Commander in the 4th season of Nickelodeon's Teenage Muant Ninja Turtles, also provided the voice of Doctor Facilier in Princess & The Frog.

Fact #3992
Brett Dalton who plays Grant Ward in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. provided the voice and avatar of Josh in the horror thriller smash hit PS4 stand alone game, Until Dawn. 

Fact #3993
In one scene in Iron Man 2, Tony Stark is looking through a suitcase that belonged to his father, Howard Stark. Among his possessions are a Captain America comic book, and a map of the Arctic Circle, where Captain America's airplane went down.

Fact #3994
Several powerful Marvel comics relics can be seen in Odin's vault in Thor, including the Orb of Agamotto, the Tablet of Life and Time, the Warlock's Eye, and the Infinity Gauntlet.

Fact #3995

Writer of the Thor comic books, J. Michael Straczynski, makes a cameo as one of the men who attempt to pull Thor's hammer out of the ground in New Mexico.

Fact #3996
When Natalie Portman's character, Dr. Jane Foster, hands Thor a t-shirt that belonged to an ex-boyfriend, a name tag that reads "Donald Blake M.D." can be seen on the shirt. Dr. Donald Blake was the name of Thor's alter-ego in the original comic books.

Fact #3997
When Red Skull finds the Tesseract in Captain America: The First Avenger, he says that "the Fuhrer is too busy digging for trinkets in the desert." This line is a reference to the Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Fact #3998

In all three Iron Man films, signs, buildings, and vehicles belonging to Roxxon Energy can be seen in several scenes. In Marvel comics, the Roxxon Oil Company is responsible for killing Tony Stark's parents.

Fact #3999
The actress that plays Peter Quills mother in Guardians of the Galaxy, Laura Haddock, also appears in Captain America: The First Avenger. Her character asks Steve Rogers for an autograph.

Fact #4000
The actor who plays Yondu Udonta's second-in-command, Kraglin, is played by director James Gunn's brother, Sean Gunn. He also did all the motion capture acting for the character Rocket Raccoon.

Fact #4001
Francesca who plays Chloe in Disney's Dog With A Blog provides the voice of "The Little Red-Head Girl" Charlie Brown has a crush on, and Frieda, in The Peanuts Movie.

Fact #4002

Krisitin Chenoweth who played Maleficent in Disney's Descendants provides the voice of Fifi, Snoopy's crush, in The Peanuts Movie.

Fact #4003
Noah Johnston who will be voicing Schroeder in The Peanuts Movie, provided the voice of young Mike Wazowski in Monsters University.

Fact #4004
Hadley Belle Miller who will be voicing Lucy in The Peanuts Movie, provided the singing voices of Buttercup and The Witch in Disney Junior's Sofia The First.

Fact #4005
While making Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Daron Nefcy originally came up with the idea for the show about a girl named Star with an overhyped imagination of being a princess which interfered with the people around her. Nefcy pitched the idea to Disney and they insisted her to change it. Nefcy decided to make Star an actual princess from a different dimension living on Earth which became the premise for the final version of the show.

Fact #4006
According to her Tumblr, creator Daron Nefcy drew the first concept drawing of Star Butterfly in 2008.

Fact #4007
According to the original director Bob Peterson, the inspiration for The Good Dinosaur came from his impression of the dinosaur animatronics he saw on a childhood visit to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Fact #4008
The original cast of The Good Dinosaur was to include John Lithgow, Judy Greer, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, and Lucas Neff, but they were replaced following major story changes. The only original cast member to still be a part of the film is Frances McDormand.

Fact #4009
The dinosaur statues in Inside Out, were used as real dinosaurs in The Good Dinosaur.

Fact #4010
One of the main reasons why animation was chosen as the perfect way to execute a Tarzan story was because the character is so lithe and animal-like, it would have been nearly impossible to achieve those effects with live action.

Fact #4011
Tarzan has been adapted from its book many times over the years and is second only to Dracula in the adaptation chart.

Fact #4012
The boat that Clayton and his team use to get from the freighter ship to the jungle when they are going to hunt the gorillas is the same type of boat used in the "Jungle Cruise".

Fact #4013
Minnie Driver largely ad-libbed the breathless speech in which Jane tells her father and Clayton about meeting Tarzan for the first time.

Fact #4014
The Disney animators actually hired a professor of anatomy to consult with them over Tarzan's musculature. He would superimpose the correct type of muscles over their drawings to help show them how to depict a man at the peak of his physical prowess.

Fact #4015
Creator Michael Jacobs offered roles to every previous Boy Meets World actor if she/he wanted to be involved with Girl Meets World.

Fact #4016
Sabrina Carpenter auditioned for the role of Riley and Rowan Blanchard auditioned for the role of Maya. They were later cast in the other's role.

Fact #4017
In the original pilot for Girl Meets World, Riley and Auggie had an older brother named Eliot, who was played by Teo Halm. After the series was picked up, the series went under some creative retooling and the character was cut.

Fact #4018
In Season 2 Episide 9 "Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels" and "Girl Goes to Washington", when Eric is moping on the couch he is wearing a grey t-shirt and a green robe. Just like in Boy Meets World Season 4 Episode 2 "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow". In both episodes he is also seen eating a large bowl of Coco Puffs with a jug of milk and chocolate syrup.

Fact #4019
In the episode "Girl Meets Farkle's Choice," when Riley messes up her lines in the school news, Maya laughs hysterically at Riley's mistakes. For the scene, Sabrina Carpenter, the actress who plays Maya, was asked to give a real laugh. The laugh seen on-screen is actually real.

Fact #4020
Kanan Jarrus is a "cowboy Jedi". The western genre was one of George Lucas's influences behind the Star Wars saga.

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