stackyFACTSDigging up dusty rocks suddenly looked incredibly glamorous. The 1993 dinosaur spectacular caused such a massive spike in students enrolling in paleontology courses that universities actually struggled to accommodate everyone who thought they'd be cloned raptor wranglers.
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Sound designer Gary Rydstrom created the iconic velociraptor communication noises in the 1993 film Jurassic Park by recording tortoises having sex. During a…
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The Catholic Church suddenly found itself very busy in the 1970s. After audiences watched a teenager spider-walk down the stairs, local parishes were…
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In a spectacularly misguided attempt to court teenagers, a major theater chain proposed opening auditoriums where texting was fully allowed. The immediate,…
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Historical inaccuracy doesn't stop ticket sales. Despite butchering actual history, the 1995 epic caused tourism to the real Wallace Monument to skyrocket by…
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