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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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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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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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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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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Jerry Seinfeld turned down US$5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the Seinfeld show for a tenth season.
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