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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The janitor from Scrubs was originally a figment of J.D.'s imagination.
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The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.
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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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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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