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Jun 28 2016
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Entertainment, Music

Fact #1133: The reason the Top 40 is specifically forty singles is because standard jukebox machines used to hold 40 songs.

Source: http://top40.about.com/od/popmusic101/a/top40.htm

 

Jun 16 2016
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Entertainment, Music, Places

Fact #1125: Metallica performed in Antarctica just to break a record and be the first musical act to perform on all 7 continents.

Source: http://www.gigwise.com/news/94018/Metallica-added-to-Guinness-World-Records-after-Antarctica-show

Jun 15 2016
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Fact #1124: A man won “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” by having 2 family members in the audience cough every time he read out a correct answer. However he was caught shortly after.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ingram

Jun 01 2016
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Fact #1113: Soap operas gain their distinct look from alternative lighting methodologies, framerates, and video storage formats. The alternative methods are used as cost-saving action, due to budgetary constraints.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/25169/why-did-soap-operas-look-different-other-tv-shows

 

May 16 2016
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Fact #1101: Milhouse Van Houten from The Simpsons was named after Richard Milhous Nixon, because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milhouse_Van_Houten#Creation

 

May 04 2016
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Entertainment, History, People

Fact #1093: Margaret Thatcher’s election on May 4th, 1979 as PM of Britain was the genesis of the phrase “May the Fourth Be With You”, in reference to Star Wars’ Day.

The London Evening News printed a half page that said “May The Fourth Be WIth You, Maggie. Congratulations.”

Star Wars had been released two years earlier, and its cultural impact was enough that the pun on “May The Force Be With You”, one of the movie’s catchphrases, was universal enough to make sense in a British print ad.

It wasn’t until 2011, though, that fans began to co-opt the day as a celebration.

Source: Snapchat’s Discover Section – MTV Bubble

 

Apr 14 2016
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Fact #1079: In 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby%27s_Dream_Land?two#Development

Apr 11 2016
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Fact #1076: The Godfather II and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King are the only sequels to ever win Best Picture.

Source: http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/Gen-Trivia.pdf

Apr 04 2016
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Fact #1071: In Titanic (the movie), all the actors hired for the engine room scenes were only 5 ft tall, to make the already sizeable set look larger on screen.

Source: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/feature/a774388/18-things-you-never-knew-about-james-camerons-blockbuster-epic-titanic/

 

Mar 25 2016
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Fact #1065: Disney made a deal with Netflix to stream all of their new releases starting “late 2016,” including (Pixar and Marvel movies).

This means films like Finding Dory, Avengers: Infinity War, and Star Wars: Episode VIII will be on Netflix in the coming years.

Source: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/netflix-bests-starz-in-bid-for-disney-movies/?_r=1

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