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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In 2012, 146 babies in the US were named Khaleesi.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, the Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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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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The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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