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The lion roar sound effects used in The Lion King are not actual lions, but voice actor Frank Welker growling and screaming into a metal trash can.

In 2018, Ikea ran a magazine print advertisement for baby cribs, encouraging possible pregnant women to pee on the latest catalogue, which doubles as a pregnancy test. If the test is positive, then the ad reveals a special discounted price on cribs.

In 'Fahrenheit 451', the government didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans and didn't want to be offended.

The world's first nuclear power plant (Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant), built by the USSR in 1951, wasn't decommissioned until 2002.

The non-profit Nurse-Family Partnership, which arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vulnerable mothers, reduced the number of babies or toddlers hospitalized for accidents by more than half and increased babies' IQ by 5 to 7 points.

Freddy Krueger was inspired by Wes Craven's experience watching a man in a fedora outside his apartment. "Somehow he sensed that someone was watching, and he looked right up and into my eyes.” Craven retreated, but when he looked out his window again, the man was still there, staring up at him.

Actor Michael Keaton got his start in show business as a production assistant on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He helped with the puppets and ran the trolley.

Japan's love of salmon as a sushi staple is a result of a successful Norwegian marketing campaign in 1986. Raw salmon sushi wasn’t consumed in Japan before that because the Pacific salmon had parasites.

Minced oaths are a type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression. One example of this would be the use of the phrase "Yippie-ki-yay Martha Falcon" in the censored television showing of Die Hard.

Colombia's Kogi tribe selects their priests from birth and raises them in a dark cave for a decade to foster a deep connection with the Earth.