HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".
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The Power Rangers command center is a real building located in a California University.
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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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Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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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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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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