The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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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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According to legend, there's a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
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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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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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