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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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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After Disney threatened to sue three day care centers for unauthorized use of their characters, Hanna-Barbera gave them the right to use Universal characters as decorations.
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Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
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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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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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