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Rip Torn lost his role in "Easy Rider" to Jack Nicholson after a confrontation at dinner. Dennis Hopper claimed he pulled a knife on him. Torn says Hopper pulled the knife. Hopper repeated the story on the Tonight Show, prompting Torn to sue for defamation, winning $1 million in damages

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Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson used real drugs on screen in the 1969 classic Easy Rider

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1. Rip Torn and Dennis Hopper got into a drunken fight with butter knives at a dinner party, leading to Torn being replaced by Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider launching Nicholsons career

2. Easy Rider- Hopper and Fonda did not write a full script for the movie and made it up as they went along. They didn't hire a crew but instead picked up hippies at communes across the country, and used friends and passersby to hold the cameras and were drunk and stoned most of the time.

3. Jack Nicholson got his big break on Easy Rider because of an actual knife fight between Dennis Hopper and the actor orginally cast for Nicholson's role, Rip Torn.

4. Thieves stole three motorcycles used in Easy Rider and likely chopped them up not realizing their real value

5. The designers and builders of the Captain America motorcycle in Easy Rider were actually Clifford "Soney" Vaughs & Ben Hardy and not Peter Fonda as Fonda claimed in an interview

6. 1980s "Mickey" pop singer/dancer Toni Basil was, in the 1960s, a working counterculture actress, appearing in "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," and "Greaser's Palace" among others

7. Action Bronson's Easy Rider's main melody is a sample of an anatolian rock classic "Adımız Miskindir Bizim" by Mahzar and Fuat.

8. Peter Fonda designed and had built the Captain America bike from Easy Rider from used LAPD Police Bikes bought at auction and that it and the Dennis Hopper Bike was stolen and parted out before the movie came out

9. The iconic American song The Weight which portrayed American Freedom in Easy Rider which was sung by legendary American 60's musical group - The Band, was written by one Canadian and sung by another.