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Super minor fact that everyone probably know already: the keyboardist for The Police was the one who wrote the music for the original Spyro trilogy and the Amanda Show. There’s a track in the first Spyro game (I think it’s the haunted towers?) that sounds exactly like the main running theme that’d play on the Amanda show whenever she’d walk in. It’s weird
 
Count groudon said:
Super minor fact that everyone probably know already: the keyboardist for The Police was the one who wrote the music for the original Spyro trilogy and the Amanda Show. There’s a track in the first Spyro game (I think it’s the haunted towers?) that sounds exactly like the main running theme that’d play on the Amanda show whenever she’d walk in. It’s weird
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You mean Stewart Copeland? He was mainly famous as the drummer.
 
Count groudon said:
Yep! Sorry, I’m not really all too familiar with them, so I didn’t really know what role he played in the band. He can make some pretty great songs by himself though, even if he recycled bits and pieces from his other songs to make them.
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Similarly the music for the crash bandicoot games was composed by Mark mothersburg who while the lead singer of Devo was at the time doing the music for Rugrats on Nickelodeon.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Similarly the music for the crash bandicoot games was composed by Mark mothersburg who while the lead singer of Devo was at the time doing the music for Rugrats on Nickelodeon.
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He's also known for his fantastic work on Wes Anderson's films including the (full length) Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and that other movie I don't want to think about.
 
Tobe hopper originally wanted the Texas chainsaw massacre to be rated PG and more like a human version of the later film jaws, ironically jaws has much more blood and even gore than the nearly bloodless TCM and was still only rated PG.


The Texas chainsaw massacre was partly funded by the Mafia. Bryston pictures was originally a money laundering company the mafia used to move dirty money. It was also the production company behind the making and distribution of deep throat one of the earliest wide released pornographic films.

Gunnar Hanson the actor playing leatherface actually cut his leg while filming the final scene of the Texas chainsaw massacre, he had a scar on his leg for the remainder of his life.

The agents of Renee zelwegger and Matthew macconahey actually managed to block the release of the Texas chainsaw massacre 4 aka the next generation because they believed it would ruin their at the time rising careers.


Motel hell was at one point considered to be a Texas chainsaw massacre sequel but became its own film when director Tobe Hooper left the production.
 
A whorehouse in Borneo was only shut down after a "customer" reported that one of the prostitutes working there instead of an underaged ladyboy, was a rare Asian orangutan with all her hair shaved off.


Sailors used to have have sex with "seacows" aka manatees and dugongs because they poses genitalia almost indistinguishable from that of human women. Said sailors would then claim it was sirens and or mermaids that seduced them to avoid having to admit "yeah I fucked a sea mammal."


A solider in Russia was killed by a raccoon after he tried to drunkenly have sex with it, after being cucked by his squad mates, who were another man and one of the few new female recruits in the Russian military at the time.
 
A tribe in papa new Guinea has ritualistic scarring, where it leaves the flesh looking like a crocodiles scales.

They believe they evolved from crocodiles, and this is a way of showing tribute. Pretty badass.

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The ancient initiation ritual that scars boys to look like crocodiles

Male members of the Chambri tribe (left) - who live 721km north-west of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea - undergo this painful ritual to transition from being a boy to a man.
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Jasonfan89 said:
Tobe hopper originally wanted the Texas chainsaw massacre to be rated PG and more like a human version of the later film jaws, ironically jaws has much more blood and even gore than the nearly bloodless TCM and was still only rated PG.


The Texas chainsaw massacre was partly funded by the Mafia. Bryston pictures was originally a money laundering company the mafia used to move dirty money. It was also the production company behind the making and distribution of deep throat one of the earliest wide released pornographic films.

Gunnar Hanson the actor playing leatherface actually cut his leg while filming the final scene of the Texas chainsaw massacre, he had a scar on his leg for the remainder of his life.

The agents of Renee zelwegger and Matthew macconahey actually managed to block the release of the Texas chainsaw massacre 4 aka the next generation because they believed it would ruin their at the time rising careers.


Motel hell was at one point considered to be a Texas chainsaw massacre sequel but became its own film when director Tobe Hooper left the production.
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Also, there's only one chainsaw death in the entire movie, Franklin, and if I remember, it's entirely offscreen.
 
Horror punk band the misfits were formed out of the original lead singer Glen Danzig's garage in Lodi NJ

The original sex pistols stole all their own instruments from breaking and entering music shops after hours or during riots.

Similarly early hip hop got its start because most of the original DJs and artists looted equipment from shops during the 1977 NYC blackout.


In the summer of 1979 the Detroit tigers held a promotion called disco demolition night. Where tickets to the game were offered at half price if you brought in a disco record that in a mid game event would be destroyed either with fireworks or launched out of a junk mortar. The event attracted even non baseball fans such as fans if Rock and roll or punk music who hated the Disco genre.

The event was a disaster. Halfway through the demolition event the rowdy crowds of Rock fans had stared riots, tore up the field, stole bases, harrassd the players and tried to rush their dugouts or locker rooms, and the white sox had to forfeit the game. It's often called "the day the 70s died"
 
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A dumb hole is an acoustic analogue of the black hole -- a region, surrounded by an event horizon, in a compressible fluid within which the escape velocity exceeds the speed of sound. Because so far we cannot create a black hole in our labs, dumb holes have been used as analogue experiments to study properties of black holes, such as Hawking's radiation.
 
Horseradish shows up exactly the same as blood when testing for blood or fluids... Top tip for a murder...

Jasonfan89 said:
...The event was a disaster. Halfway through the demolition event the rowdy crowds of Rock fans had stared riots, tore up the field, stole bases, harrassd the players and tried to rush their dugouts or locker rooms, and the tigers had to forfeit the game. It's often called "the day the 70s died"
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Sounds like the 10c beer night that went just as badly.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
The event was a disaster. Halfway through the demolition event the rowdy crowds of Rock fans had stared riots, tore up the field, stole bases, harrassd the players and tried to rush their dugouts or locker rooms, and the tigers had to forfeit the game. It's often called "the day the 70s died"
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One of the participants in the riot was a young Michael Clarke Duncan. He slid into third base, got mugged for his silver belt buckle, and went home with a bat from the dugout as a souvenir.

The promotion was masterminded by Bill Veeck, who was known for colorful promotions like 'free lobster night' and 'free live chicken night'. He lost a leg serving in World War II and had a prosthesis with a built-in ashtray.
 
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Jasonfan89 said:
In the summer of 1979 the Detroit tigers held a promotion called disco demolition night. Where tickets to the game were offered at half price if you brought in a disco record that in a mid game event would be destroyed either with fireworks or launched out of a junk mortar. The event attracted even non baseball fans such as fans if Rock and roll or punk music who hated the Disco genre.

The event was a disaster. Halfway through the demolition event the rowdy crowds of Rock fans had stared riots, tore up the field, stole bases, harrassd the players and tried to rush their dugouts or locker rooms, and the tigers had to forfeit the game. It's often called "the day the 70s died"
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The day was supposed to be a double-header, but the second game got cancelled. People were scaling the sides of the stadium to get in, meaning a lot of tickets just weren’t sold.
 
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