10 Shocking Facts You Didn’t Know About Classic Movies

10. Titanic - Neil DeGrasse Tyson Changed An Important Scene

Unless you've been hidden away from modern society for the last two decades, you've likely stumbled across the name "Neil DeGrasse Tyson" and the record-breaking box office smash that was "Titanic".

However, what you may not have realised is that these two entities actually collided a few years ago in the lead-up to James Cameron re-releasing his film in 3-D back in 2012. As the legendarily precise director later explained, maverick astrophysicist Tyson pinged him a "snarky" email explaining that he'd originally made a bit of a c*ck up during one of the movie's climactic moments.

As Rose lay on some driftwood and stared up at the stars, Cameron actually showed off what Tyson claimed to be the wrong field of stars for that position in the Atlantic in 1912. So, ever the perfectionist, Cameron went back to the drawing board and used the correct correlation of stars, as provided by Tyson, for its eventual 15th Anniversary re-release.

This isn't the first time Tyson has dissected a feature in such a way, either, with the astrophysicist poking fun at Gravity's non-floating hair in space and debunking the common trope of freezing humans in order to time travel as nonsense too.