HBO reported that the Sunday's opening show had a record 16.1 million viewers which is 50% more than last years number of 10.7 million. It reaches out to people in 170 countries and is HBO's most successful show ever. Some interesting fun facts :
The average cost of making the episode is $6 million making it one of the most expensive t.v shows
The producers have travelled to United States, Morocco, Malta, Iceland and northern Ireland for shooting the episodes. Northern Ireland has stated that the country has made $100 million because of the filming.
Majority of the prostitutes in the show have been hired from the porn industry
In 2013, 146 girls were named Khaleesi
Sansa stark adopted her pet dire wolf (Northern Inuit dog) in real life.
It is the t.v show with the most number of illegal downloads
The long wigs in the show are made from more than 2 feet of human hair
Dothraki languge created for the show has 4000 words in its dictionary. Speak Dothraki
The first episode/pilot did not air because it was bad!
Hold the door..hold the door our Hodor is gay
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