The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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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 TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice, in the movie 'Hercules', was dubbed.
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have "any harmful moral side effects" and were based on "ties of intense friendship."
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