Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) was a real guy, and Hidalgo was a real horse. Supposedly, they never lost a long-distance race in the U.S., prompting them to head for the Middle East around 1890 ...

Plans by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower have been condemned by designer Gustave Eiffel's descendants and provoked a backlash from some Parisians.