The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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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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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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