More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women.
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HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
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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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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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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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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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