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Before Stephen Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants, he taught marine biology. |
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The Pledge of Allegiance was written as part of a plan to sell flags to schools. |
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Unlike many substances, water expands as it freezes. An ice cube takes up about 9% more volume than the water used to make it. |
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The chemical name for water (H2O) is dihydrogen monoxide. |
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Most of the dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park lived during the Cretaceous period (not the Jurassic) |
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Most meat eating dinosaurs walked on two feet while most plant eaters walked on all fours. |
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The oldest living fossil today is the jellyfish. It dates back 650 million years |
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The terrifying Mosasaurus was not a dinosaur but a colossal marine lizard |
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The oldest known dinosaur is Saltopus. It was a small carnivore (about the size of a duck) that lived 245 million years ago. Remains of this dinosaur have only been found in Scotland, so the UK might hold the key to the origin of dinosaurs. |
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The biggest known dinosaur (so far) is Argentinosaurus, which was 98 feet long and about 50 feet tall |
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Harrison Ford, then 35, was installing a door for Francis Ford Coppola when a studio executive asked him to read lines with actresses who were testing for a new film. The film was Star Wars. |
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The Beatles planned to star as the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and approached Stanley Kubrick to direct it. Kubrick turned them down. |
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Due to a zipper breaking, Olivia Newton-John had to be sewn into the trousers she wears in the last carnival scene of Grease. |
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After Top Gun was shown in cinemas, recruitment into the Navy by young men went up by 500 percent. |
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Pierce Brosnan was contractually forbidden from wearing a full tuxedo in any non-James Bond movie from 1995-2002. |
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Although popular myth has long-since implied that Marlon Brando padded his cheeks with cotton wool to nail the unforgettable speech pattern of Vito Corleone, he did so only for the audition. Before the actual filming began, he had a mouthpiece specially created by a dentist to give him the same effect. |
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The Hollywood star who played the most leading roles in feature films was John Wayne (1907-1979), who appeared in 153 movies. |
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The three main actors in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) all met an untimely death. James Dean died in a car crash, Natalie Wood drowned, and Sal Mineo was stabbed to death. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Arnold Schwarzenegger earned $15 million for speaking a total of 700 words of dialogue — which breaks down to $21,429 per word. "Hasta la vista, baby"? That cost $85,716. |
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Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns. |
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Jane Jetson was a teen mom. (In the show, Jane is 32 years old while her daughter is 16. That means that Jane was 16 when she got pregnant.) |
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Only female mosquitos bite. The males go for flower nectar instead. |
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In a process called triboluminescence, Wint-O-Green Lifesavers give off little sparks when they are eaten in the dark. |
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Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie was over. That's why they are called "trailers." |
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The average male gets bored of a shopping trip after 26 minutes. Females? 2 hours. |
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Television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread. |
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The first movie with a $100 million budget was True Lies (1994) |
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The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates (right) to those who have been convicted of DUI |
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The only country in the world whose name begins with "Q" is Qatar. |
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Taco Bell is getting a makeover, and it's celebrating the occasion with a whole bunch of new stores. Before 2018 ends, there will be 100 more restaurants in the U.S., and by 2022, there will be another 1,000. Nearly a third of those are Urban In-Line or Cantina - meaning you can get your booze on while you eat your Nacho Fries. |
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