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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On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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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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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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