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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In 2005, there was a TV show in Germany called “Sperm Race” where contestants’ sperm was raced towards an egg. The winner got a Porsche.
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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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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women.
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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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44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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