The Simpsons are yellow because creator Matt Groening thought it was a good way to catch channel surfer’s attention when they saw a flash of yellow.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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