TV and Film Facts

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    The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
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    Two surfboards left behind during the filming of “Apocalypse Now” are what gave birth to the Filipino surfing community.
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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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    The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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    Thor
    Thor
    A movie theater in China mistakenly used a gay fan-made Photoshop picture as the official poster for Thor 2.
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    Forrest Gump Novel
    Forrest Gump Novel
    In the “Forrest Gump” novel that the movie is based on, Forrest goes into space with NASA. Upon return, he crash lands on an island full of cannibals. He only survives because he beats the head cannibal at chess everyday.
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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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    Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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