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- Captain & Tenille - Do That To Me One More Time
- Paul McCartney and Wings - Coming Up
- Bette Middler - The Rose
- Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
- Air Supply - Lost in Love
- KC & The Sunshine Band - Please Don't Go
- Styx - Babe
- James Caan, Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds all turned down the role of Han Solo.
- At one point, George Lucas planned for the characters of Luke Skywalker and his aunt and uncle, to be dwarves
- Most of the Stormtroopers are left-handed. That is because of how the weapons are constructed. Their weapons are based on a real weapon, where the magazine is on left side of the weapons. This construction caused it to hit the troopers in the chest. Therefore they have to switch grip of the weapon, which made them look left-handed.
- According to Mark Hamill, studio executives were unhappy that Chewbacca has no clothes and attempted to have the costume redesigned with shorts
- On the first day of filming in the deserts of Tunisia, the country experienced its first major rainstorm in 50 years
- The terms "X-wing" and "Y-wing" and "TIE fighter" were used by ILM effects guys to distinguish the fighters. These terms are not used in this film, though they were incorporated into the sequels. They also became popular with the public after the toys and the Making of special aired on tv. In addition, ILM's special effects staff nicknamed the Millennium Falcon "The Porkburger" but this never caught on.
- Chewbacca's "voice" is a combination of several animals including bears, badgers, walrus and camels
- Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge - Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan (1991m)
- Storebæltsbroen (Great Belt Bridge) - Halsskov-Sprogø, Denmark (1624m)
- Runyang Bridge - Yangtze River, China
- Humber Bridge - Barton-upon-Humber, United Kingdom
- Jiangyin Suspension Bridge - Yangtze River, China
- Tsing Ma Bridge - Tsing Yi-Ma Wan, Hong Kong, China
- Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - New York City, USA
- I have a story about me and 2 girls from my past
- I am in a distorted time bubble
- What if I say we're not done till I say we're done?
- It's your f--king neighbour!
- Candles? What do you mean candles?
- Why is your smoke blue and mine yellow?
- Know your men and their cheese preferences
- Like her father's armory, other buildings were abandoned as people left to find work in thriving cities elsewhere.
- If DirectShow doesn't support the file format, this method does nothing. I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
- Light, don't let her use you.
- I long again for the cold, clean winds of the heights.
- Only one light can be edited at a time, but all added lights will be used to create the effect.
- Is she going to stay the full Winslow thought that was an od Isabelle frowned at her husban Isabelle didnt answer
- "Somebody locked that door," he sneered. "Unless you're lying about it, the creature with him was a weedy number with red eyes and sniffles"
- Germany : Schlumpf
- Italy : Puffo or Puffi
- Hungary : Torpikek
- Spain : Los Pitufos
- China : Lan jing ling
- Israel : Ha - Dardasim
- Catalonia: Barrufet
- Babies kneecaps only ossify (turn bony) at 3 years of age.
- The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- The 'save' icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
- The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a William Shatner mask painted white, due to low budget.
- The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.