Fun facts

In an early episode of House, Dr. House plays Metroid: Zero Mission.
 
In Touhou, Flandre's theme is called U.N. Owen was her, a reference to an Agatha Christie book (And then they were none). She also has a spell card eponymous to that book.
 
In Connecticut, it is illegal to dispose of razors.
 
Here's a shocking fact for the Doctor Who fans on here:

On November 22, 1987, while broadcasting the episode "Horror of Fang Rock", WTTW-TV, the PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois, was interrupted for exactly 88 seconds by a pirate television broadcast that managed to dominate over WTTW's transmitter to broadcast a video of himself being spanked while wearing a Max Headroom mask!
 
During the intro of the first (and only black-and-white) season episodes of Gilligan's Island, during the scene in which the SS Minnow begins heading out into sea, in the background, an American flag flying at half-staff is briefly visible in the background. This was because the intro was filmed not long after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
 
When the Ohio amusement park King's Island first opened, two ABC sitcoms filmed episodes on-location at the park to give it national attention: The Partridge Family episode "I Left My Heart in Cincinnati" (which first aired January 26, 1973) and The Brady Bunch episode "The Cincinnati Kids" (which aired nearly 11 months later on November 23).
 
The raccoon’s scientific name, Procyon lotor, means “washer dog” although it is a closer relative to the bear family.
 
While the Raccoon Dog's scientific name is Nyctereutes Procynoides, the Japanese raccoon Dog's name is Nycterutes Procynoides Viverrinus.

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Hitler thought that the people of New Zealand were a tree dwelling species.
 
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