Hanna-Barbera pitched The Flintstones to networks for 8 weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.
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Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.
Invented in 1923, Q-Tips were originally called Baby Gays; then Q-Tip Baby Gays, then finally, just Q-Tips. The Q stands for quality.
Supermarket apples can be a year old. These weird facts might have you changing the way you eat. Those fresh apples aren’t all that fresh, per se. They’re usually picked between August and November, covered in wax, hot-air dried, and sent into cold storage. After six to twelve months, they finally land on your grocery store shelves.
A frog can throw up an entire organ. Frogs don’t have a gag reflex like humans and other animals. Their way of rejecting unwanted elements is way more hardcore: The frog vomits its entire stomach out, dangling it from its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to clear out all of the stomach’s contents. Finally, it swallows the stomach back down again.
Marsupials have three vaginas. Marsupials such as koalas, wombats and Tasmanian devils all have three vaginas. The vaginas on the sides carry sperm to the two uteruses since male marsupials have two-pronged penises. Finally, the middle vagina births their offspring.
Plants were formed before seeds. Moss-like plants most likely reproduced with single-celled spores. Then 150 million years later, multicellular seeds finally began to evolve.
Stan Lee created the character for Iron Man as a challenge. Stan Lee had been playing around with the idea of a businessman superhero for a while and finally bit the bullet in 1963 when he came up with the concept for Iron Man. Marvel’s readers at the time were very much against war, so he thought it would be a unique challenge to create a character who fans would originally hate but come to love – and it worked!
The author of the James Bond novels wrote the first book to take his mind off the fear of getting married. Ian Fleming was a bachelor of 44 years when he wrote Casino Royale in 1952, the first in a long series about the devilishly handsome British spy. Many years later, Fleming wrote in his memoirs that he was so terrified at the concept of finally getting married that he wrote his first Bond novel. Some authors doubt this dismissal, claiming he simply wrote it as a quick cash job, but it makes a hell of a good story!
Top 5 best-selling video games of all time. Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time by a large margin. The game was released in November 2011 and has sold 200 million units. People of all ages love crafting and survival games. Meanwhile, Grand Theft Auto V holds the number two spot with 140 million units sold. Quite a few people log on every week to partake in this regularly updated open-world title. Both titles include sales across multiple platforms. On the other hand, Tetris holds the number three spot in mobile sales alone. The classic game has amassed 100 million in sales since its release in 2006. Wii Sports lands at number four and features sales on one platform as well. Finally, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hit 70 million in sales across multiple platforms to round out the top five best-selling games list. Every title on the list saw an initial release between 2006 and 2017.
Monthly Amazon Web Visits Reach 2.9 billion. How many times have you signed into your Amazon account this month? Shopping on Amazon was already hot before the pandemic struck. Amazon’s monthly visitor totals averaged around 2.5 billion in September 2021 alone. That number rose to 2.8 billion in October and 2.9 billion in November. During these virtual visits, browsers spent around 7 minutes perusing more than 9 pages of products each before they finally made buying decisions. Amazon recommendations help drive sales, as do positive and negative reviews from shoppers. The addition of the membership program Amazon Prime to the consumer shopping experience has further boosted visitor numbers seeking membership perks.
Moving statues. The only statue from classical Rome to remain largely unmolested and on public display for nearly 2,000 years is the Equestrian statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius. Erected in the late 2nd century AD, it was finally put inside a museum in the 1980s.
Microsoft tried to stop the spread of Linux for many years before finally admitting defeat and joining The Linux Foundation in 2016.
In the year 1920, women finally got the right to vote in the United States.