Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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