Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet is the most expensive painting sold at an auction. It was purchased for $85.2 million dollars.
Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock ‘99.
Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.
Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
Billy Joel’s CD, “52nd Street” was the first CD to be released to the public. This occurred in Japan in October of 1982.
Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show “Scooby-Doo.” Casey Kasem, being a strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show.
Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China.
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.
In 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head.
In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents.
In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters.
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