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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Kakariko Kid - 11-17-2014
The creator of Johnny Bravo, the creator of Dexter's Laboratory, and the creator of The Powerpuff Girls were all roommates in college.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 11-18-2014
In A Goofy Movie, there's an easter egg of Ariel(from Disney's Little Mermaid) as the motel lamp that Max and Goofy stay at.
![[Image: tumblr_msz49aeGsu1rm146oo1_500.gif]](https://33.media.tumblr.com/fa98e71e82d67fe3e950f388f4b410fc/tumblr_msz49aeGsu1rm146oo1_500.gif)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - retrolinkx - 12-05-2014
The longest film ever known is something called "The Cure for Insomnia", it is 3 days, 15 hours in length and has only been shown once in 1987.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 12-06-2014
O Fortuna is one of the oldest pieces of music that we still know how to play and have the actual sheet music for. It might actually be the oldest piece of music that we know how to play correctly. There are obviously older songs, but we are unsure of how they were originally played.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Boyobmas - 12-08-2014
Back in 2011, Disney announced that they were remaking The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (One my favorite movies of all time) in 3D. It was going to be directed by Robert Zemeciks and was to feature a new cast for the Beatles. Disney dropped the project (for better or worse) the same year, Zemeciks reportedly tried to get the project picked up by other companies and that's all that's been heard of it since.
http://www.yellowsubmarineart.com/ys_3dmovie/index_3dmovie.htm
![[Image: YellowSubmarine3D_stage.jpg]](http://www.yellowsubmarineart.com/ys_3dmovie/images_3dmovie/YellowSubmarine3D_stage.jpg)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 12-12-2014
^While we're on the subject of Yellow Submarine. During the development of the original Yellow Submarine. The beatles were against having any part of it(having seeing the horrid mess of the saturday morning cartoon that was produced based off of them). However, they saw a small pencil test animation of it and loved it. In the end. It resulted the beatles themselves having a cameo in live-action for the final scene of the movie.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 12-13-2014
Speaking of the Yellow Submarine movie, an uncredited man named Peter Batten provided half of the voice work for George. He only provided half as it was discovered he was a deserter from the British Army of the Rhine and was arrested halfway through the film's production. The rest of George's lines were provided by Paul Angelis, who also voiced Ringo in the film.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Kakariko Kid - 12-30-2014
In Super Troopers, during the car chase scene at the beginning of the movie, when the white Miata comes off the exit ramp, you can see pallets, cones and a worker where the road was closed off.
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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - retrolinkx - 01-21-2015
There was a war that lasted 335 years, in which no blood was split and ended peacefully
The general idea behind this is that both sides declared war, ended it peacefully and forgot to do the paperwork to legally declare it over and eventually just found out and did the paperwork in 1986.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 01-21-2015
http://www.twitch.tv/monstercat
Twitch has evolved into an internet radio podcast station for music.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - retrolinkx - 02-17-2015
During World War 2 there were two invasions that occurred on France between 1942-1944. You probably all know what D-Day, but the other one was the "Dieppe Raid"
Now, to cut a long story short the Dieppe Raid in 1942 was meant to be a small recon mission in which the allies would gather some intel for a bit, and then retreat destroying as much as they could along the way. It was a total failure with none of those objectives achieved.
As for D-Day, if you don't know it. It was a large invasion force sent to Normandy to liberate France and in the long run was to be the final push to Germany to end the war.
What's interesting about both of these is a man called Leonard Dawe, a person who wrote Crosswords for the Daily Telegraph. Two days before the failed Dieppe Raid, the crossword had the clue "French Port" and the solution being "Dieppe" in it. The War Office detained Dawe thinking he was trying to send over intel to the enemy, but eventually was let go and it was "just a remarkable coincidence—a complete fluke."
Two years later in 1944 leading up to D-Day, the words "Juno", "Gold" and "Sword" (These were the codenames for the D-Day beaches assigned to the British (Gold, Sword) and Canadians (Juno)) also appeared in the Daily Telegraph by the same person. It was also treated as a coincidence.
The run of D-Day codewords as Daily Telegraph crossword solutions continued:
In May 1944: 'Utah' (clued as "One of the U.S."): codename for the D-Day beach assigned to the 4th US Assault Division (Utah Beach). This would have been treated as another coincidence.
On the 22nd of May: 'Omaha' (clued as "Red Indian on the Missouri"): codename for the D-Day beach to be taken by the 1st US Assault Division (Omaha Beach).
Then on the 27th of May: 'Overlord' (codename for the whole D-Day operation: Operation Overlord)
Again on the 30th of May: 'Mulberry' (Mulberry harbour)
And finally on the 1st of June: 15 Down was 'Neptune' (codeword for the naval assault phase: Operation Neptune).
He was detained a lot during that period and was interrogated intensively by MI5 before he was deemed innocent and was let go. Under everything being a coincidence.
The interesting reasoning behind this is that Dawe who was also a Headteacher for a local school would ask young boys for words to use for his crosswords, at the time there was also an American/Canadian infantry division stationed close to where he was living. The defences were poor and many of the soldiers were lazy and used to talk to the young boys as well as in general to one another, so overhearing certain words and phrases was not uncommon for local people.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 02-26-2015
With Ducktales getting a new cartoon. Now would be the perfect time for some ducktales trivia. Did you know? After Ducktales was finished. Someone pitched to Disney a sequel series that would have taken place after the show. It focused on Donald returning home from the navy, and scrooge gives Donald the keys to running his business. While trying to get the hang of Scrooge's business, Donald tries to get back with Daisy and his nephews(who are now in their teens, but are still the nephews he saw them as when he left port). However. Disney executives didn't like the concept. And thought kids wouldn't be interested in it. Instead. They shifted the production of it just focusing on the nephews, and made a ton of changes(some of which the Disney artists would later call out as 'unacceptable' for good reason). They moderized it to the extreme for the 90s, which left a bad taste in everybody's mouth. Needless to say, critics didn't like it. And rumor had it that Carl barks had called out on Disney on 'destroying the legacy he gave to Donald' with this mess.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 02-26-2015
A quick Google search leads to info stating that Quack Pack actually had changes made to fit in better with Goof Troop, not as an extension of Duck Tales. In fact, producer said that Quack Pack was not related to Duck Tales in an interview before the release of the cartoon and that Donald and gang interacted with humans to be like the classic Donald Duck shorts and to separate it from Duck Tales.
So, I think there are more sides to this than what you say, CLXcool and you're potentially looking at the whole thing through a lens of sheer hatred.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 02-26-2015
Actually, its not coming from hate. Its coming from after reading this(which I took a image of before the forum itself went down). Its from an artist who worked at Disney around the time Quack Pack was produced.
![[Image: tumblr_n7oinxfEEm1rx9er0o1_1280.png]](http://36.media.tumblr.com/6dd0d4e55cafd658f9ccb2a3e316efa5/tumblr_n7oinxfEEm1rx9er0o1_1280.png)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - gamemaster1991 - 02-26-2015
Am I the only one who really liked Quack Pack? I'm starting to think that I am. That's nothing new to me. I reject everyone's opinions and substitute my own.