In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have "any harmful moral side effects" and were based on "ties of intense friendship."
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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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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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There is a cup of coffee in every scene of the movie Fight Club.
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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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