*When Full House began Mary-Kate's name wasn't hyphenated
*The girls have had FOUR television series: Full House, Two of A Kind, So Little Time and MKA in Action
*Mary-Kate was nominated for a daytime emmy award in 2002 for her role as Riley Carlson. It was the first time she was nominated for an award without her sister, although she did not win
*Actor, Eric Lutes has played their dad twice, first in Switching Goals then again later in So Little Time
*In photos where the girls are dressed in blue or orange and either pink or red. MK is usually in blue or orange and Ash in pink or red
*They threatened to walk off the set of Two of a Kind because the producers were limiting the number of terminally ill children allowed to visit the set
*The girls originally came up with the title, 'Me and My Shadow' but settled on 'It Takes Two'
*Mary-Kate usually wakes up early and Ashley like to sleep in
*For their sixteenth birthday they got a cake in the shape of a drivers license with photos of both of them on
*Came up with the idea for a fashion line whilst working on Two of a Kind
*New York Minute earned $5.96 million it's opening weekend, the lowest ever for a movie playing at over 3,000 theatres
*Have their own waxworks, but they look nothing like them!
*Holiday in the Sun was originally called The Last Family Vacation. Watch the bloopers at the end, it says that name on the clapper board
*Switching Goals took only a month to make
*Received their own star on the Hollywood Walk of fame on May 29th 2004
*They attended a small private high school in California until they were 17.
*Getting There was originally going to be called 'Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive 'Then 'Road Trip' But there were already movies with these same names
*Ashley learned to speak Chinese for New York Minute and Mary-Kate learned to drive a stick and play the drums, it took her four months to learn
*The sisters made 26 episodes of So Little Time and chose to not make a 2nd season and go on to pursue their movie dreams
*Full House is the only thing they have ever had to audition for
*Hate being called THE OLSEN TWINS!
*Mary-Kate was admitted to a clinic in Utah in 2004, for her eating disorder
*In 2005 Ashley posed alone for a photoshoot and article in Harpers Bazaar magazine, it was the first time she had posed without her sister, the following year MK posed for her first solo shoot in W Magazine
*When MK first moved to New York she had Starbucks cookies frozen and imported to her apartment, because she claimed that the ones in L.A. taste betetr
*Ashley is closer to, younger sister Lizzie, but MK is close to her too.
*Mary-Kate's pet peeve is when people make noises eating bannanas!
*They both became style icons, because of their vintage boho look, complete with vintage oversize clothing and balenciaga handbags.
*Actor Ethan Peck (Passport to Paris) used to go to their school. Ashley asked him to be in the movie because she thought he was cute.
*Their favourite Two of a Kind episode to shoot was 'Nightmare on Carrie Street'