I Learned Something Today

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Filter's "Take a Picture" is their sole US Top 40 hit.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Scientists now think Saturn's rings may have been caused by one of their moons falling toward the planet and getting disintegrated in its atmosphere.

https://www.ign.com/articles/saturns-distinctive-look-may-be-rooted-death-ancient-moon

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Björk co-wrote Madonna's "Bedtime Story".

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Rihanna's "Disturbia" was featured on one of the last Circuit City ads before their 2009 bankruptcy.

 

[harry580]

while disney & Pixar are making coco, disney tried to trademark dias de los muertos but got outrage from the latin community so disney didn't trademark dias de los muertos as a result

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Electric Light Orchestra has the most US Top 40 hits for a band without even scoring a number one hit with 20.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Five's debut single "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)" was used as the NBA's theme song for the 1998-99 season.

 

[JoeMabbon]

Hispanic Heritage Month begins in the middle of September because Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all celebrate their independence days on or around the 15th.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Indonesia is the only country to currently have cigarette advertising.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The last cigarette print ads in the UK before it was abolished in February 2003 were Silk Cut's "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" ad in which it depicts an opera singer, while singing, wears a silk dress with a cut and Lambert & Butler's "Looks like we've been outlawed, sir" ad in which it depicts the duo having their faces pixellated.

 

[Red Arrow]

Indonesia is the only country to currently have cigarette advertising.

Source?

 

[Violt]

Scientists now think Saturn's rings may have been caused by one of their moons falling toward the planet and getting disintegrated in its atmosphere.

https://www.ign.com/articles/saturns-distinctive-look-may-be-rooted-death-ancient-moon

I learned things about the planets that the mainstream education system don't tell people about.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Source?

Here's the Wikipedia article about it.

Cigarette advertising in Indonesia - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Mandouga]

The Video Game Crash of 1983 was never really a thing in Japan. Even so, they have their own name for it: “Atari Shock”.


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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Outkast's "B.O.B." has a rock remix featuring Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

The Spanish term for "peacock" - el pavo real - literally translates to "royal turkey."

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Michael Berryman's favourite role is The X-Files single-episode character Owen Jarvis, due to it being a playing against type moment for him, since he tends to be typecast for playing villains and monsters.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

David Tennant is the only actor to have played three incarnations of the Doctor in Doctor Who - The Tenth Doctor, his fully human clone dubbed the Metacrisis Doctor and his fourteenth incarnation.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Danny Elfman and Jenna Elfman are related!