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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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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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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The first video aired on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles in 1981.
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Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
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The girl who voiced Lilo from "Lilo & Stitch" (Daveigh Chase) was also Samara from The Ring.
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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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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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