General "Did you Know?"s

[GameWizard001]

Well I didn't know this but now I do. I now know what snozzberries are from Willy Wonka. Puts that movie and story into a whole new perception now don't it?

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-f...rc=fanpage

[gamemaster1991]

Well I didn't know this but now I do. I now know what snozzberries are from Willy Wonka. Puts that movie and story into a whole new perception now don't it?

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-f...rc=fanpage

My dad always laughed at that part and I never knew why. He never would tell me, and now I know why.

[CLXcool]

Speaking of Wonka. Roland Dahl hated the film version of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. He later wrote a second story of Wonka, where Charlie is running the factory. Since the release of the book, Dahl had rejected offers for a film based off of the second book(hence why Tim Burton's film of Charlie and the chocolate factory doesn't end on an opened note). Dahl later wrote a third story on Charlie visiting the white house, but Dahl never got around to finishing it since he pasted away while he was writing the story.

[Hexadecimal*]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs

Saw this on Reddit and thought I should share. Super bizarre, but quite the achievement to hijack a TV broadcast! Never knew this happened.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Taxi Driver is one of the most famed ultra violent films of the 70s. However, it was nearly rated X in the US for it's violence (technically, the X rating originally meant ANY film that needed to be over 18 to watch due to sex or violence, but it ended up only being used for sex. Go figure.) So, some changes were made to fit into an R rating.

Instead of changing the amount of violence onscreen, however, the blood in the final scene (and the final scene only) was lightened to a pinkish color instead of red. This was apparently good enough, and the film was given an R rating instead. Ok then.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Pro wrestler Billy Joe Travis got arrested for not paying child support...
On live television before a wrestling match.

[frankfrost2]

Pomskys. Its a dog type, a hybrid cross between a Pomeranian and a Husky. Its cute.

http://www.fuzzytoday.com/2013/10/04/pom...husky-mix/

[Psychospacecow]

This was going to be in Lilo and Stitch.

[gamemaster1991]

Have you ever had a Dum-Dum lollipop? I'm going to say yes and that you tried to find out what the Mystery Flavor is. The answer is that it's whatever was in the last batch before it was changed. You see, rather than shutting down the whole mastion to clean out the candy equipment between flavors, they would just add on to the end and create a new flavor.

Also the name Dum-Dum is thought to come from two places. The first is that "Dum Dum" was a word any child could easily say. The other is that the ball-shaped candy resembles the British military "dumdum bullet".

[RepentantSky]

The Spirits in Spirited Away are not based off of spirits in Japanese lore, but rather Miyazaki's own life experiences. In an interview, Miyazaki recollects cleaning a river in a volunteer group once. He found a bicycle and when he couldn't pull it out, he tied a rope around the handle and him and 10 other volunteers pulled it out. The no face spirit is also supposedly based off of Miyazaki's own social awkwardness.

Several of Miyazaki's main characters are based off of real life people. Kiki was based off the 13 year old daughter of the producer for Kiki's Delivery Service and Chihiro was based off another co-worker's daughter of the same age. Ponyo and Sosuke were a bit more detailed though as Miyazaki believe's that they are what five year old's would be like if they could show and express what they understood about the world the same as any adult could. These two were also based off of many young 5 year old children Miyazaki knew because his co-workers would sometimes bring their kids to work with them.

The town in Kiki's Delivery Service is more or less a combination of two Swedish cities. The capital Stockholm and a smaller but popular tourist attraction town called Visby. In Visby there is a cafe which has an ocean side view fairly close to it, this was the influence for Osono's Bakery.

The ending song in Spirited Away was not originally intended for the film. It was supposed to be a part of another movie that didn't end up happening. Supposedly, Miyazaki liked the song so much though, that he built a movie that it would work in, and it turned out to be Spirited Away.

[Hexadecimal*]

The above cel is all I've been able to find of the censored scenes from All Dogs go to Heaven, which needed cuts in order to get a G rating. Two scenes were drastically altered to achieve this.

The first is when Charlie is killed. Originally Charlie could be seen being hit by the car on camera and his body flying into the water.

The second is the Hell dream, which is still pretty scary, being toned down. As you can see from the cel above that demon thing hung around Charlie a little longer and chased him. If you watch the Hell scene with this information you can totally notice how choppy it is.

The third is no big deal; just Killer's Tommy Gun had the name changed to some fictional fantasy weapon.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Thomas Dolby is member #1 of the flat earth society, an organization devoted to providing NASA and anyone with good sense wrong and state that the earth is flat, not a sphere.
If you don't recognise that name, he is the singer behind that wonderful '80s mega hit, 'She Blinded Me With Science'. I guess he doesn't have much need for real science.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

The lead singer of the band Rush, Geddy Lee, is the child of Polish Jewish refugees that moved to Canada after WWII. Both his parents were survivors of the concentration camps of Hitler, his father at Dachua concentration, his mother at Bergen-Belsen.
Their experiences of his parents drove the creation of the song "Red Sector A". The chorus deals directly with the experiences that his mother had when British soldiers liberated her camp. She had thought the outside world had blown up and there would be no place left to live. Her father and brother died at the camps, yet her mother barely survived. Take a listen.

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Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know who Rush is, the hold the record for the most Gold or Platinum studio albums released consecutively in the U.S., at 16. In total, they have released 24 recording that went Gold status, 16 more that went Platinum and 3 at multi-platinum.

[RepentantSky]

This one ties into video games but it also has to do with the Batman's sidekick Robin so take it as you will.

Robin has been voice acted by at least two actors who have had leading or Important roles in action RPG's. Scott Menville, who voiced him in the 2000's Teen Titans series also played a Character named Maximilian in a Level 5 developed RPG called Dark Cloud 2. Jesse McCartney who voices Roxas in Kingdom Hearts, also voiced Robin in the more recent Young Justice series.

[CLXcool]

Did you know a much edgier version of Red hot riding hood was made, but was later then censored by MGM? Originally. Red Hot Riding Hood had a much different ending. It was originally to end off with Grandma marrying the wolf through a shotgun wedding(and the mixed couple of granny being happy while wolfie was depressed out of his mind ended up going to see Red's show with their half human half wolf children).

The scene was cut due to the bestiality reference as well as mocking marriage(which studios couldn't do at the time). However. The scene was later put into a reel that was made for the army overseas. According to Tex Avery. He requested that the shotgun scene would be made for the army overseas instead of the public audience. This version of the cartoon is considered a lost film.