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While filming ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’, Mordecai the hawk was kidnapped and held for ransom! Unfortunately, Mordecai was never retrieved. Anderson and his team had to use a second hawk for the rest of the film. If you know about Mordecai’s whereabouts, notify officials immediately!

Ketchup didn’t originally contain tomatoes but was rather a concoction made of fish or mushrooms. Once tomato ketchup was invented, a physician named John Cooke Bennet had the brilliant idea to press the sauce into pills and sell them as a cure for diarrhea, indigestion and rheumatism. The ketchup medicine craze didn’t last long.

It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.