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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Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
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God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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While filming a guest appearance on Star Trek TNG, Stephen Hawking was taken on a tour of the USS Enterprise set. When he saw the Warp Core, he paused, and said “I’m working on that.”
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In Jurassic Park, the T-Rex wasn't supposed to come through and break the glass roof of the explorer during the attack scene, subsequently producing the noticeably genuine screams from the children.
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