There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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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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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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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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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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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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