Ryan Gosling has a fear of heights, but still did the 150-foot fall at the beginning of the movie.
With 8.5 car rolls, this movie breaks the Guinness World Record of the most car rolls (a fact which Gail actually mentions in the dialogue).
Chris O'Hara received a credit for for the crew position of 'stunt designer,' believed to be the first credit of its kind. The role of Stunt Designer is meant to acknowledge the high-level artistic contribution of the traditional stunt coordinator role, and recognize creative leadership within the stunts industry.
This movie had been in development since 2010. Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Nicolas Cage, Jason Statham, and Dwayne Johnson were all eyed to play Colt Seavers over the years.
One of the Post-It notes Tom has up (visible during the shoot out sequence) is a reminder to buy unicorn food. This suggests that he has been recreationally taking the hallucinogen that Colt was drugged with.