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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HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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The first South Park episode was made with construction paper. It took 3 months to make.
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Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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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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