39 Facts About “The Hunger Games” You Probably Never Knew

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1. Author Suzanne Collins was trained in sword fighting, but believes if she were really in the Hunger Games, she'd only be scored a 4.

2. The Hunger Games is currently the third-most highlighted Kindle book of all time. The Bible is first.

3. Collins used to be a staff writer for Clarissa Explains It All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. She also wrote for the show Little Bear.

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4. When Collins was a child, she was a Greek mythology fanatic.

5. Her original inspiration for The Hunger Games was the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, which horrified her as a child.

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43 Inconceivable Facts About “The Princess Bride” You Probably Never Knew

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1. The Princess Bride was almost made into a movie in the '70s, and a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger was seriously considered to play Fezzik.

2. By the time the movie was actually made, Schwarzenegger was too expensive to hire.

3. The Rodents of Unusual Size were men in rat suits.

4. One of the R.O.U.S. actors got into a fight with his wife and burned down the kennel they owned, so the film crew bailed him out of jail so he could film the Fire Swamp scene.

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5. Director Rob Reiner auditioned over 500 women for the role of Buttercup, including Courtney Cox, Meg Ryan, Uma Thurman, and Whoopie Goldberg.

6. Robin Wright is originally from Texas but barely needed any dialect coaching for Buttercup's English accent. Her father is British.

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