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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People actually live in the Mos Eisley set from Star Wars.
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Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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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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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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