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There are wild kangaroos in France.

Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so it rhymed with "rejoice".

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

The Oakland Raiders weren't originally supposed to be called the Raiders; their working name was the Oakland Señors.

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Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

The print on a cat's nose has a unique ridged pattern, like a human fingerprint.

Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of the principles of gravity, also invented the cat door.

Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.

The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.

In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.

When cats are happy, they may squeeze their eyes shut.

Walnuts are not really nuts but are related to peaches.

15 May 1997 was declared official 'ZZ Top Day' in the band's home-state of Texas. Who would pass such bizarre legislation? The Texas State Governor at the time, George W Bush.

David Bowie has a lizard tattooed on his ankle.

Gruff-voiced rocker Bryan Adams photographed Queen Elizabeth II for a Canadian stamp.

Michael J. Fox (the actor who played Marty in Back To The Future) has the middle name Andrew.

1. Albert Brooks (The Scout, Finding Nemo) was born Albert Einstein.

2. Donald Sutherland named his son Kiefer after Warren Kiefer, the director of Castle of the Living Dead, Donald's first feature film.

3. Roger Bowen, who played Col. Blake in the movie M*A*S*H, died of a heart attack the day after McLean Stevenson, who played Blake in the TV series, died of the same cause.

4. Before his death in 2003, the last song Warren Zevon played in front of an audience was "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" on The Late Show with David Letterman

In the original arcade Donkey Kong game, Mario was called Jumpman and he was a carpenter, not a plumber.

Michael Jackson, in some form or other, has appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Ready 2 Rumble Round 2, Space Channel 5 1 & 2, GTA: Vice City and, obviously, Moonwalker.

Tomb Raider's Lara Croft was originally called Laura Cruz.

Nintendo has never given Mario an official surname, even though ‘Mario Bros.’ suggests that it’s Mario Mario.

There really is a game called ‘Communist Mutants from Space’, y’know. It’s a Space Invaders clone released for the Atari 2600 in 1982.

Nintendo” translates as “Leave luck to heaven”.

Capcom is short for ‘Capsule Computers’.

The Chain Chomp enemies in Mario games were inspired by a dog, chained to a post that belonged to a neighbour of Miyamoto during his childhood.

The speeding up of enemies in the 1978 original Space Invaders was an unintentional feature that stemmed from the way the game was programmed, but was retained.

Mega Man is blue thanks to the first format he appeared on – the NES – having a limited, blue-tinted selection of colours to display.

Robert Altman's son Michael wrote the lyrics to "Suicide is Painless", the MASH theme song. Because the song was later used in the TV series, Michael ended up making more money in royalties than his father had made directing the movie.

The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally named "The Seinfeld Chronicles". The pilot which was broadcast in 1989 also featured a kooky neighbor named Kessler. This character later became known as Kramer.

Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halves of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar).

The Peanuts were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlane automobile commercial.

Giraffes have an 18-20 inch tongue.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella.

Judy Jetson is a Libra.

Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.

The Black Cauldron is the only PG-rated Disney animated feature.

Boiling the bark of a white oak tree and adding witch-hazel and freshed squeezed lime juice creates a mixture that will make poison-oak stop itching.

The US intelligence keeps a list of all people who are known to have an I Q in the top 2%.

Some vine plants such as ivy are able to mutate into many different forms and even cross breed with types of trees.

The "third eye" is more that just an expression; there is actually an eye-like structure located in the human brain right behind the forhead.

The Keys of Enoch in its complete form has a reputation for being harder to obtain than the full version of the Necronimicon.


If you travel far enough north the Aurora Borealis will not just be a visual experience, one will be able to hear it as well.

Walt Disney's original choice for Mickey Mouses name was Mortimer Mouse.

Walt Disney was very much an anti-semitic

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had

The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.

At age 15, Jerry Garcia swapped his birthday accordion for an electric guitar.

Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.