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* Series composer Michael Giacchino (who also composed the music for ''[[The Incredibles]]'') used parts of the plane as percussion instruments and can be heard in the score of the pilot episode.

* The airplane pieces on the beach, depicting the doomed flight from Sydney, are the remnants of a Lockheed Tristar L-1011. She began service for Eastern Airlines (N308EA) in 1972 and was retired by Delta Airlines (N783DL) in 1998 having racked up a total of 28,822 landings and 58,841 flight-hours.

* Jennifer Jason Leigh was approached to play the part of Libby, but she declined.

* During the scenes where Charlie is handling and using heroin, the heroin is actually cane sugar.

* The two-part pilot episode was the most expensive in ABC's history, reportedly costing between ten and fourteen million dollars. The average pilot is usually in the region of four million.

* In France, it is known as "Lost: Les Disparus" (''The Disappeared Ones''). The additional French tag is due to a governmental ruling that imposes the use of French in all titles.

* The ornate tattoos on Jack's shoulder are Matthew Fox's own.

* The original name of Charlie's band Drive Shaft was The Petting Zoo. This had to be changed, however, when it transpired that there really is a band called The Petting Zoo. The band's one hit, "You All Everybody" is largely inspired by the [[Oasis]] song "Cigarettes and Alcohol".

* Desmond's full name is "Desmond David Hume". David Hume was a Scottish philosopher who rote extensively on the subject of free will vs. predetermination.

* Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine that the names of the characters Daniel Faraday and George Minkowski are references to the scientists Michael Faraday and Hermann Minkowski, respectively. Michael Faraday was a physicist and chemist who contributed to our understanding of electromagnetism, while his fictional namesake is a physicist whose experimental work had involved magnetism. Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and experimental physicist whose work helped explain Einstein's special theory of relativity in the context of four dimensional space-time (which often figures in postulations and theories about how time travel might work), while his fictional namesake actually is a time traveler.

* As the early drafts did not feature several of the characters who eventually appeared in the pilot, or had them appear very differently, many of the actors wound up auditioning for the parts of Kate and Sawyer. Yunjin Kim impressed the casting director but was deemed not right for the role of Kate, so Abrams and Lindelof created the character of Sun specifically for her, as well as the character of Jin to give her a foil. Dominic Monaghan and Matthew Fox both auditioned for the role of Sawyer, who was written as a slick city conman at the time: as mentioned above, the part of Charlie was rewritten to suit Monaghan, while Fox later re-auditioned for the part of Jack once it had been decided that Jack would be a series regular rather than a [[Sacrificial Lamb]]. The part of Sawyer was rewritten to its current incarnation based on the strength of Josh Holloway's audition.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: When he first meets Jacob, Richard Alpert asks if he is The Devil. Mark Pellegrino not only plays Lucifer on ''[[Supernatural]]'' but also previously starred as a servant of the Devil in ''[[Brimstone]]''.