1. In their very first outing in 1940, Tom was actually called Jasper, while Jerry – though nameless in the cartoon itself – was referred to as Jinx by the animators!
2. Tom and Jerry are American as apple pie – except for a really weird period in the 60s when the cartoons were made in Czechoslovakia.
3. There was once a suspiciously similar knock-off series called Herman and Katnip. The antics of this particular cat and mouse aren't that well-remembered today, which is odd since its theme tune is almost nightmarishly catchy.
4. Bet you didn't know Tom and Jerry had a spin-off? Made in the 1950s, it was called Spike & Tyke and featured the adventures of that big bulldog we often saw beating Tom up.
5. It's a myth that Tom and Jerry were silent characters. They both uttered lines throughout the decades, and in the 1992 movie they couldn't keep their traps.
6. Tom and Jerry won seven Academy Awards.
7. TOM and JERRY were first created for an advertisement where Jerry hides from Tom in the car, and the narrator tells the viewers that their new car is the safest place to hide for.
8. Traditionally, music plays a very important part in Tom and Jerry shorts–since Tom and Jerry almost never speak–effectively emphasizing the action, adding emotion to the scenes, and filling in for traditional sound effects.
9. So who actually created Tom and Jerry? It was animation's most successful ever partnership – William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
10. There’s a Tom and Jerry episode where they both commit suicide!
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