Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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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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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
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Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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