Here are some random facts for you.
1. Audi’s four-ring logo represents the four companies that combined to create Audi’s predecessor, Auto Union. The logo debuted in the 1930s, and was likely inspired by the five-ring logo of the Olympics. In fact, the International Olympic Committee sued Audi over it in 1995, but they lost.
2. Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas. He picked “Keaton” as a stage name because there was ALREADY an actor named Michael Douglas, and he liked the way Diane Keaton’s name sounded.
But Keaton was a stage name for Diane Keaton too. Her real name is Diane Hall. Keaton was her mother’s maiden name. Also, her nickname is ‘Annie’, which is where Woody Allen got the title for “Annie Hall”.
3. The famous artist Caravaggio is actually FROM the city of Caravaggio, Italy. He chose to use that as his name because his first name was Michelangelo. And clearly, another artist already had that one claimed.
4. The average eel lives to be 10 to 15 years old. But an eel in Sweden lived to be 155. That’s the equivalent of a person living to 813 to 1,220 years old.
5. In the “Super Mario Brothers” series, Luigi’s name is based on the Japanese word “ruiji,” which means “similar”, because Luigi is similar to Mario.
(Wikipedia / Biography / WalksOfItaly / NBC News / Wikipedia)
