The original serialized run of The Adventures of Pinocchio ended with Pinocchio getting executed. For real. That was it—no magic spells, no nothing. Readers were so incensed by this that author Carlo Collodi changed the ending when the story was finally compiled in book form in 1883. (Source)

Speaking of the source material, good old Jiminy did have an appearance of sorts in the original The Adventures of Pinocchio—he was the talking cricket Pinocchio brutally murdered in chapter four. Ouch. (Source)

Although this is Jiminy Cricket's film debut, his name was actually used as an expression of surprise in Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. (Source)

Although legendary voice actor Mel Blanc recorded several speaking lines for Gideon in the film, producers decided to cut his dialogue down to just a few laughs and hiccups. (Source)

Pinocchio was the first ever animated film to win an Oscar in a category in which it was competing with live action films. Nailed it. (Source)