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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The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
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James Bond has killed 150 men and has slept with 44 women since the first movie came out in 1962.
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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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The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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In 1997, Kevin Smith was hired by Warner Brothers to write the script for a Superman movie. He was forced to write Superman without the power of flight and he had to fight a giant spider. The movie would’ve starred Nicolas Cage.
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