The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

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Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until the censors made him have feathers because he "looked naked."

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The Looney Tunes song is actually called "The Merry-Go-Round is Broken Down."

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Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska

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King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).

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The last Playboy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985. Venice Kong was the model.

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Shannon Hoon, the now-dead lead singer of the group Blind Melon was a back-up singer for Guns N' Roses on their Use Your Illusion 1 CD

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The name Horshack (Arnold in "Welcome Back Kotter") means "the cattle are dying".

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Mary Tyler Moore was banished from the Ed Sullivan Show after her first appearance. Her crime was insisting on lip-syncing a song she was to perform; a Sullivan taboo

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Gone With the Wind" is the only Civil War epic ever filmed without a single battle scene

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David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

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The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was a spin-off of the Danny Thomas Show.

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The "Hallelujah Chorus" fits into the Easter portion of Handel's Messiah, not Christmas.

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Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer/flautist responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick". Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

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In the early days of silent films, there was blatant thievery. Unscrupulous film companies would steal the film print, reshoot a scene or two, and release it as a new production. The combat this, the Biograph company put the company's trademark initials AB somewhere in every scene -- on a door, a wall, or window.