1. Before wielding Han's blaster, Ford was better with a hammer as a carpenter.
Ford went on to share the famous story of how he got his big break as galactic smuggler Han Solo in 1977's "Star Wars" while still working as a full-time carpenter.
"My principle job at the time was carpentry," Ford said in the AMA. "I had a house at the time I wanted to remodel, a bit of the wreck of a house. I'd invest money in tools but wouldn't have money for materials, so I realized this was another way of putting food on the table."
Ford added he got the role from standing in for screen tests for director George Lucas, who worked with Ford in American Graffiti.
"I had helped George Lucas audition other actors for the principle parts, and with no expectation or indication that I might be considered for the part of Han," Ford said. "I was quite surprised when I was offered the part." - Businessinsider.com
2. He is a licensed private pilot of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
Fascinated with aviation at a young age, Ford made a valiant effort to chase his dream.
“I wanted to pursue my pilot’s license back when I was in college, just three lessons I think,” Harrison notes. “I think it cost about $11 an hour for a plane and an instructor, I just couldn’t afford it,” he explains. “I never lost the ambition to fly. I just hadn’t found the time,” says Ford.
Acquiring a pilot’s license at the age of 53 at first seemed daunting. Starting with a Cessna 182, Ford mostly flew out of Jackson, Wyoming, and Teterboro, New Jersey, learning both demanding environments.
“I love flying and, I love the airplanes themselves.”
Since acquiring his private pilot’s license in 1996, Ford has amassed more than 3,500 hours of flight time in both rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft, and he holds Floatplane, Single Engine, Multi Engine, and Instrument Rating certificates along with being Type Rated in the Cessna Citation Sovereign 680. – tvrphoto.wordpress.com
3. Ford shares his name with a silent film actor also named “Harrison Ford”, who died in 1957.
He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film, A Time for Killing, but the "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name. It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932, and died in 1957.
Ford later said that he was unaware of the existence of the earlier Harrison Ford until he came upon a star with his own name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ford soon dropped the "J" and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. – Astrotheme.com
4. He had his ear pierced at Claire’s Accessories.
The story goes like this: after a lunch with country music crooner Jimmy Buffett Ford, then 55, decided he liked Buffett’s stud so much he would visit a Los Angeles branch of Claire’s Accessories to get his ear pierced. The lucky piercer was a woman called Tavora Escossery who, it’s thought, made the experience so pleasant that before leaving, Ford wrote her a note reading:
“To Tavora. You made a hole in me. Harrison Ford.” - Theguardian.com
5. He has creatures named after him.
Ford is on the board of directors of Conservation International. He’s even received an award for his work on preserving the planet. In 1993, an arachnologist named a new species of spider Calponia harrisonfordi.
In 2002, an entomologist named a new ant species Pheidole harrisonfordi. Ford has been an advocate and spokesman promoting environmental preservation since 1992. He also began helping support archaeologists after the success of Indiana Jones. – omgfacts.com