There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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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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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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The name for Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
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