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- 82% of the Beatles music was about love. -BB
- The Beatles song "Because" is Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" backwards. -BB
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. -KH
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in Jell-o. -KH
- The Professor on Gilligan's Island was named Roy Hinkley. The Skipper was named Jonas Gumby. Both names were used only once in the entire series, on the first episode. -SC
- George Costanza's mother never once laughed on Seinfeld. -BM
- Kramer has done his "entrance" into Jerry's apartment 284 times. -TR
- Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. -AN
- 70% of Americans have visited DisneyLand or Disney World. -AN
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. -AN
- In the 1940's, the FCC assigned TV's channel 1 to mobile services, but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV has no channel one. -AN
- The Don McLean song "American Pie" is named after the airplane Buddy Holly died in. -AN
- David Prowse is the guy in the Darth Vader suit. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. -AN
- In every episode of "Seinfeld," there is a Superman somewhere. -AN
- The cruise line "Queen Elizabeth II" moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. -AN
- No NFL team that plays their home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. -AN
- The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave It to Beaver." -AN
- The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the before and the day after the Major League All-Stars game. -AN
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. -AN
- Paul Reiser himself plays the piano in the "Mad About You" theme. -JH
- The name 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". -JH
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. -JH
- In the Beatles' song "Let It Be," the lyrics "Mother Mary" refers to Paul McCartney's mother. -AS
- The Beach Boys' song "Surfer Girl" was inspired by the Disney song "When You Wish Upon a Star." -CD
- Harrison Ford was a carpenter on the set of Star Wars before he was selected for the part of Han Solo. -DC
- 90 people were killed in the filming of Ben Hur. -CS
- A basketball is 22 inches in diameter. -AM
- Geordi La Forge's VISOR (from "Star Trek: the Next Generation") is made of a 99 cent hair piece covered in glitter. -CS
- A cup that was used in the bar on "Star Trek: Deep Space 9" was the same cup used by Ramsees in the movie The Ten Commandments. -CS
- The longest movie is 48 hours long. -BB
- The person who did the makeup on the movie Men In Black also did the makeup of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestial. -BB
- The guy who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars series is 7'6" tall and worked as a nurse before filming Star Wars. -CS
- All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. -CS
- The characters Bert and Ernie on "Sesame Street" were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver on Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.
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Last modified: 19 Sep 1998