Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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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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The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
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The actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones Season 4, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, was only 25 years old at the time of filming.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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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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