One of the fascinating pieces of trivia below is true*, the other is false. Do YOU know which is which?

Casino (1995)

1) The “head in a vise” scene is taken from an anecdote in the book “Casino” unrelated to the main story, describing mob enforcer Tony Spilotro’s interrogation of a low-level gangster named Billy McCarthy, who had committed the unauthorized murder on the Scalvo Brothers, a pair of high-ranking mobsters within Spilotro’s crime organization. Trying to get McCarthy to give up the identity of the man who helped him kill the Scalvos, Spilotro first beat McCarthy, then stabbed him in the testicles with an icepick, before finally shoving his head in a vise and crunching it to five inches wide; McCarthy didn’t give up the name of his partner, Jimmy Miraglia, ntil Spilotro tightened the vise in such a way that one of Billy’s eyes popped out. Amazingly, McCarthy survived the head-crushing long enough for Spilotro to kill him by dousing him in lighter fluid and setting him ablaze. Spilotro would remark later in life, “Billy McCarthy was the toughest guy I ever met.” (Jimmy Miraglia was subsequently shot dead and put in the trunk of his own car along with Billy’s corpse).

2) During his lovemaking scene with Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci became covered head to toe in a particularly vicious breed of pubic lice. Pesci decided to keep the lice on his body, as their constant gnawing at his flesh helped him channel his character’s irritability. When filming was complete, the entire cast and crew, along with every set and prop used in the film, were thoroughly fumigated, causing Sharon Stone to literally dissolve in front of everyone’s eyes, as the pubic lice were the only things holding her body together.

*true trivia courtesy of IMDB.com