General "Did you Know?"s

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We all have a broad range of interests and random trivia locked up in our skulls, so I figure why not share it? Share your knowledge of anything not related to video games here.

As I've said before, I'm an immature little goon who never grew out of animation. As such, I know a few neat little tidbits. Let's start with some songs, shall we? It's common knowledge that songs are shortened or cut all together for time reasons, but did you know some had this done due to content?

Let's begin with Aladdin. For the opening song "Arabian Nights" in the theatrical release a lyric went "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face". This was deemed too offensive and was changed to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense". Supposedly some early VHS tape releases have the original lyrics, but I've yet to see anyone prove it. Mine has the censored version.

For Pocahontas, the song "Savages" was toned down a bit because it was deemed too racist. Original:


Fern Gully has two! The first isn't a big deal; it's just a racy lyric from "Toxic Love" that got cut. Can't have "I feel good, a special kind of horny" in a kids movie:


The full "Batty Rap" is... Quite disturbing:


My beloved Brave Little Toaster is a victim as well, but in a much more unique way. Let's take a look at the song "Worthless". Here is a picture from the VHS version:


Now the DVD release:


Apparently star pasties are too naughty for the kids. The picture is seriously on screen for about two seconds; I never paid it any attention as a kid.

In all version releases of the movie a car in the same song sings "Once drove a surfer to sunset/There were bikinis and buns there were weenies/Fellini just wouldn't forget".

Apparently this is a pretty crude sexual reference so the soundtrack version is altered. For some stupid reason there are no lyrics in the booklet, so I'm only guessing what it was changed to. It's so muddled it's hard to make out, but I believe it goes "There were kinis and hotdogs with weenies/Fellini just wouldn't forget".

Finally, did you know there's a song Scar sings about wanting to bang Nala? Cut from the cartoon, added into the play version, which I've seen, and it's freaking creepy. It was recorded for the film and story boarded:


Frollo can sing about his boner but apparently the above song is what crosses the line.

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Did you know that Sean Connery was originally going to be Gandalf in Lord of The Rings. Sean turned it down because he didn't understand the script.

[gamemaster1991]

Something that I really find amusing is that there is a nude image in The Rescuers. Don Bluth, back when he still worked at Disney thought it would be funny to add a Playboy image to a scene. It lasts for about a second or less, but it is still easy to see. I'm not going to post a picture cus it's NSFW (not safe for work, for those wondering), but if you want to see it, the picture is on Findingmickey.com.

Now one I can show you is from Hercules. During the training montage, Phil, Herc, and Pegasuses are out on logs on the beach. This looks familiar, but I can't tell why. Where have I seen this?

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Need I say more?

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Yes! Fix that first picture :P

[pyoro64]

Strawberry cheetos are sold in japan.

[Berry]

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

The first man made item to surpass the sound barrier wasn't a jet; it was a whip. The crack of a whip is a mini sonic boom after the end of the whip gets above 768 miles per hour, or 1,236 kilometers per hour.

In Kansas, it is illegal to hunt rabbits...from the back of a moving speed boat.

In Ohio, it is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday (for anyone that doesn't know, I live in Ohio, which is NOWHERE near the ocean, and I have never seen a wild whale out here...)

In Kentucky, it is illegal to dye a duckling blue...unless you are selling MORE than six blue ducklings, cause then it's totally fine.

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When The Lorax was first published it had a line that said "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie". Fourteen years later the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss and told him they'd cleaned it up, so the line was removed from further editions. The line is still intact in all releases of the 1972 cartoon.

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The Beatles had actually planned on making a Lord of the Rings movie with Stanley Kubrick directing it, but couldn't get Tolkien to let them make the movie

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

The only band whose name to start with Z to have a number one hit song in the U.S. was a one hit wonder. They were a duo from Nebraska by the name of Zager and Evans, and in 1969 became famous for their song "In The Year 2525". The song is also odd because they are the only band to release a song that went to number 1 in both the US and UK without ever reaching the top 100 ever again in either country. The released multiple singles and 4 more albums after their big hit also, they just were never able to chart again.

The song "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was a thorn in the side of the band Genesis. It kicked their song "Invisible Touch" off the top spot on the Billboard hot 100. It also took music video of the year at the Grammys, beating out the Genesis video "Land of Confusion". What is funnier is the fact Peter Gabriel was the original lead singer of Genesis.

The song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is an entirely true story from a time the band was almost killed in a large casino fire watching Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention play a show (Thus the line: "Frank Zappa and the Mothers, they had the best place around"). Someone in the audience shot a flare gun that embedded in the ceiling, starting the fire ("Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground.") The song also mentions a hero of the day who saved multiple lives from the rubble despite being covered in burns himself named Claude Nobbs ("That funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground.") The band had planned on recording at the casino, but finished recording the album in a nearby abandoned hotel ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty, cold and damp")

[Psychospacecow]

The only band whose name to start with Z to have a number one hit song in the U.S. was a one hit wonder. They were a duo from Nebraska by the name of Zager and Evans, and in 1969 became famous for their song "In The Year 2525". The song is also odd because they are the only band to release a song that went to number 1 in both the US and UK without ever reaching the top 100 ever again in either country. The released multiple singles and 4 more albums after their big hit also, they just were never able to chart again.

The song "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was a thorn in the side of the band Genesis. It kicked their song "Invisible Touch" off the top spot on the Billboard hot 100. It also took music video of the year at the Grammys, beating out the Genesis video "Land of Confusion". What is funnier is the fact Peter Gabriel was the original lead singer of Genesis.

The song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is an entirely true story from a time the band was almost killed in a large casino fire watching Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention play a show (Thus the line: "Frank Zappa and the Mothers, they had the best place around"). Someone in the audience shot a flare gun that embedded in the ceiling, starting the fire ("Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground.") The song also mentions a hero of the day who saved multiple lives from the rubble despite being covered in burns himself named Claude Nobbs ("That funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground.") The band had planned on recording at the casino, but finished recording the album in a nearby abandoned hotel ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty, cold and damp")

Does ZZ Top count as a counter argument?
Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album,[12] and racking up sales of 5 million units.[8] All of the singles from Afterburner were Top 40 hits, with two hitting No.1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

The only band whose name to start with Z to have a number one hit song in the U.S. was a one hit wonder. They were a duo from Nebraska by the name of Zager and Evans, and in 1969 became famous for their song "In The Year 2525". The song is also odd because they are the only band to release a song that went to number 1 in both the US and UK without ever reaching the top 100 ever again in either country. The released multiple singles and 4 more albums after their big hit also, they just were never able to chart again.

The song "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was a thorn in the side of the band Genesis. It kicked their song "Invisible Touch" off the top spot on the Billboard hot 100. It also took music video of the year at the Grammys, beating out the Genesis video "Land of Confusion". What is funnier is the fact Peter Gabriel was the original lead singer of Genesis.

The song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is an entirely true story from a time the band was almost killed in a large casino fire watching Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention play a show (Thus the line: "Frank Zappa and the Mothers, they had the best place around"). Someone in the audience shot a flare gun that embedded in the ceiling, starting the fire ("Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground.") The song also mentions a hero of the day who saved multiple lives from the rubble despite being covered in burns himself named Claude Nobbs ("That funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground.") The band had planned on recording at the casino, but finished recording the album in a nearby abandoned hotel ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty, cold and damp")

Does ZZ Top count as a counter argument?
Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album,[12] and racking up sales of 5 million units.[8] All of the singles from Afterburner were Top 40 hits, with two hitting No.1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Number 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, the pop charts if you will. ZZ Top has never had a number 1 on it. Zager and Evans did. The also topped the pop charts in the UK at the exact same time, a very rare feat that ZZ Top has also never done. But, then again, ZZ Top is defintly more than a 1 hit wonder. But then again, ZZ Top never released songs about rapists trying to commit suicide in prison by stabbing himself into a wall or how the human race will become totally reliant on machines, have they?

[Psychospacecow]

The only band whose name to start with Z to have a number one hit song in the U.S. was a one hit wonder. They were a duo from Nebraska by the name of Zager and Evans, and in 1969 became famous for their song "In The Year 2525". The song is also odd because they are the only band to release a song that went to number 1 in both the US and UK without ever reaching the top 100 ever again in either country. The released multiple singles and 4 more albums after their big hit also, they just were never able to chart again.

The song "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was a thorn in the side of the band Genesis. It kicked their song "Invisible Touch" off the top spot on the Billboard hot 100. It also took music video of the year at the Grammys, beating out the Genesis video "Land of Confusion". What is funnier is the fact Peter Gabriel was the original lead singer of Genesis.

The song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is an entirely true story from a time the band was almost killed in a large casino fire watching Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention play a show (Thus the line: "Frank Zappa and the Mothers, they had the best place around"). Someone in the audience shot a flare gun that embedded in the ceiling, starting the fire ("Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground.") The song also mentions a hero of the day who saved multiple lives from the rubble despite being covered in burns himself named Claude Nobbs ("That funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground.") The band had planned on recording at the casino, but finished recording the album in a nearby abandoned hotel ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty, cold and damp")

Does ZZ Top count as a counter argument?
Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album,[12] and racking up sales of 5 million units.[8] All of the singles from Afterburner were Top 40 hits, with two hitting No.1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Number 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, the pop charts if you will. ZZ Top has never had a number 1 on it. Zager and Evans did. The also topped the pop charts in the UK at the exact same time, a very rare feat that ZZ Top has also never done. But, then again, ZZ Top is defintly more than a 1 hit wonder. But then again, ZZ Top never released songs about rapists trying to commit suicide in prison by stabbing himself into a wall or how the human race will become totally reliant on machines, have they?

Geez man, I don't know if its how I'm reading this, but why so aggressive? I ain't a big music guy so I wasn't sure and I was asking a question..

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Sorry, I didn't mean that to come across as aggressive.