Gentle Giant facts
While investigating facts about Gentle Giant, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Burt Ward (Robin from the 1960's Batman TV show) owns a dog food company called Gentle Giants and also runs a rescue centre that has saved over 15,500 dogs to date.
The intelligence of Manta Ray. Manta ray in distress 'asks' divers for help. The three-metre-wide gentle giant, affectionately named Freckles by local divers, approached them and flipped over in the water to show them her problem – hooks embedded under her right eye.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 10 of the best facts about Gentle Giant I managed to collect.
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The Philippine Sea is one of the best places in the world to see the whale shark, considered a gentle giant, which is the largest fish in the sea. Divers often report seeing specimens at over 10 meters long.
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Dian Fossey believed that the mountain gorillas were gentle giants and that she needed to protect them.
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The real 'gentle giant', Richard Kiel who played Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, died in 2014 at the age of 74.
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Elton John (then Reginald Dwight) played in a band called Simon Dupree and The Big Sound. The band laughed at him when he played them “Your Song” and changed his stage name to Elton John. Shortly after, they dismissed Elton John, and went on to become progressive legends Gentle Giant.
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Elton John was in a band with the members of Gentle Giant. And they fired Elton.
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There were a group of Gentle giants who use to live in Alaska
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Ron Mueck who's famous for his real lifelike oversized sculptures used to be a model maker and puppeteer for television and films (he created Ludo the gentle giant in Labyrinth).
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Michael Clarke Duncan, the Gentle Giant who's breakout role came as John Coffey in the movie, "The Green Mile", was engaged to Omarosa at the time of his death.
