in the Wizard of Oz, In the beginning while Dorothy is still on the farm, she walks along the pig pen fence and then falls in. When Bert Lahr picks her up out of there her dress is perfectly clean.

in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In the scene in the glass elevator, when Mike Teavee wants to push a button, he presses the TV Room button. The elevator stops going down and immediately moves horizontally. The characters within the elevator are thrown against the wall from the sudden change. However, they are thrown against the wall that is in the direction the elevator is now moving, instead of the opposite wall as they should have been.

Now it's time for random simpsons facts

Over the years, many celebrities have appeared on the Simpsons. Famous faces have included Tom Jones, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, Ringo Starr, Buzz Aldrin, Leonard Nimoy and Elizabeth Taylor as the voice of Maggie.

Besides naming the Simpsons after his own family, Matt Groening has named may of the minor characters after streets in Portland, Oregon. The signs for N.E. Flanders Street get vandalised quite a bit...

The noise of Maggie sucking her dummy was recorded by Matt Groening himself.

Each episode of the Simpsons contains about twenty-four thousand individual drawings, or Cels. An episode takes about six months to produce, and costs a million dollars.

Eric Stefani was a keyboard player for the American band, No Doubt (and brother to the lead singer, Gwen). Disillusioned with their record company, he left in 1994 - to become an animator on the Simpsons. No Doubt hit the big time the following year.

Bart's best friend Millhouse is named after President Richard Millhous Nixon.

The Simpsons pets are Santa's Little Helper, a greyhound rescued from the dog track, and a cat, Snowball II. Snowball I died in tragic circumstances - it got run over.

Principal Skiners real name is: Arman Tanzarian

All the Simpsons middle names start with J

Krusty cant read

Homers internet company is called: Compu-Global Hyper Mega Net

Homer cant pronounce: Saxaphone, Oboe, Macadamia, Violin & Tuba

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

Ned Flanders rents his Mobile Home from 'U-BREAK-IT' Van Rental

# Flavors of Duff:
# 1. Duff
# 2. Duff Lite
# 3. Duff Dry
# 4. Raspberry Duff
# 5. Duff Dark
# 6. Tartar-Control Duff
# 7. Lady Duff
# 8. Duff Gummi Bears

The bumper stickers on Comic Book Guy?s car are: - My other car is a Millennium Falcon - I brake for Tribbles - The truth is in here - Keep honking, I?m charging my phaser - My child is an honor student at Starfleet Academy - Kang is my co-pilot

The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.

Native Americans all have type O blood.

Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

"Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache.

Bottled water costs about 1,000 times more than tap water.

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

The acid in a vulture's stomach can dissolve a nail.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The three wise men were named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.

Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca.

Mercaptan in asparagus is what causes urine to smell

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Brent Moffatt (34) from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada set the world record for most body piercings on January 15, 2003 when he pushed 702 needles through his skin in just under eight hours. He had hoped to reach 1,000, but had to stop when the pain became too much. The 18-gage needles were in for more than five minutes before he began extracting them.

The previous record holder had 200 piercings.

Moffatt is a piercer at the Metamorphosis tattoo studio in Winnipeg.

The Lava Lamp, popularized in the seventies, was originally called the Astro Lamp and fathered by Edward Craven-Walker, a naturist and inventor from Dorset, England.

The lamp was launched in 1963 and became an instant success, selling millions. The lamp is made of colored globs of oozing wax suspended in water (mixed with a cocktail of "secret ingredients") and enclosed in a glass tube lit and warmed by a light.

In 1965 the Chicago-based Lava Manufacturing Company (now Lava World) purchased the rights to the lamp and launched a successful range of "motion lamps," including the classic Lava Lite.

In England in the 1990s, young entrepreneur Cressida Granger bought Craven-Walker?s Poole-based company, Crestwell Ltd. and renamed it Mathmos. In the following years the lamp has enjoyed a resurgency in popularity, with more being sold than ever before.

The first design for the condom was created in the mid 1500s by Gabriel Fallopius (also famous for a well known part of the woman's anatomy). He designed a medicated sheath to go over the tip of the penis and under the foreskin and held on by a ribbon. He later designed a longer one for circumcised men.

The devices were used mainly to prevent the spread of venereal diseases, syphilis in particular.

In the 1600s England's King Charles II requested his physician, the Earl of Condom, to devise something to protect him from syphilis. His answer was an oiled sheath made from sheep intestine. It was often reused without cleaning and as a result did little to prevent the disease it was intended to protect against.

The modern rubber was invented in 1870. It was a thick vulcanized rubber condom that was designed to be cleaned and reused. The modern latex condom was later developed in the 1930s.

The small plastic (or other material) sheath on the end of shoe laces is officially called an aglet. This sheath is intended to make it possible to pass a lace, cord or ribbon through eyelet holes and also keeps the braid of the lace from unravelling.

On Valentine's Day (February 14, 2002) the four foot tall humanoid robot Asimo became the first non-human to open the New York Stock Exchange by pushed a white hand into a button to ring the famed bell.

Asimo, an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, was designed by Honda Motor Co. Ltd. and is a demonstration of technology that will hopefully be used for mine-sweeping dangerous regions.

The Inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del

Dr. David Bradley one of twelve engineers working on the original IBM PC invented the warm boot (activated by pressing the control, alt and delete keys simultaneously on the keyboard) to allow PC users to restart their computer without having to do a complete shut down and restart.

The aerogel created by Steven Jones, a NASA scientist in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was dubbed the least dense solid in the world when it was successfully produced as a solid material that is 99.8% air. Because of it's hazy blue appearance it was described as "frozen smoke."

The substance was developed to be used to collect particles in deep space.

The record-breaking gel made of silicon-dioxide just like glass, but it is prepared from a liquid silicone that is cooked in a pressure cooker to allow it to retain its shape. At 0.00011 pounds per cubic inch (3 milligrams per cubic centimetre) it is 1000 times less dense that glass, but can withstand temperatures of 2600 degrees F.

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