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    Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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    Interesting Facts for Curious Minds by Jordan Moore is a fun and engaging collection of 1,572 random facts spanning history, science, pop culture, and more. Perfect for trivia lovers and curious minds, this book offers bite-sized, mind-blowing tidbits that will surprise and entertain. Whether you're looking to learn something new or impress friends with cool facts, this book is a delightful read for anyone who loves to explore the world’s wonders.

    You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
    I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

    QUIET ON THE SET
     
    �            The two high­est-gross­ing films of the 1950s were The Ten
    Com­mand­ments and Ben-Hur. The films helped jump­start the career
    of film leg­end, Charl­ton Hes­ton.
     
    �       The US has Hol­ly­wood, but the UK has Pinewood. Pinewood stu­dios
    have been the loca­tion for many British films and TV shows,
    includ­ing the James Bond fran­chise.
     
    �            About 70% of all silent films have been lost per­ma­nent­ly. Silent
    films were made with the high­ly flam­ma­ble and cor­rodi­ble chem­i­cal,
    nitrate.
    �       Despite the recent pop­u­lar­i­ty of Mar­vel Uni­verse films, the 2009 film
    Avatar still holds the top spot as the high­est-gross­ing film of all time.
    Avatar has made $2,847,246,203.
     
    �       An “exploita­tion film” is a movie that attempts to exploit cur­rent pop
    cul­ture trends and usu­al­ly con­tains scenes of gra­tu­itous sex, vio­lence,
    and/or drug use. They were par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar in the 1970s.
     
    �            In 1964, only 3% of house­holds in the US had col­or TV sets. As
    tech­nol­o­gy improved, prices went down, so that by 1972 more than
    50% of Amer­i­can house­holds had col­or TV sets.
     
    �       A sil­ver screen is a type of pro­jec­tion screen that was com­mon in the
    ear­ly years of the film indus­try. The film indus­try even­tu­al­ly got its
    nick­name from it.
     
    �       The 1980 Ital­ian film, Can­ni­bal Holo­caust, was one of the first found
    footage films made. It appeared so real that direc­tor Rug­gero Deoda­to
    was briefly charged with mur­der.
     
    �       The hit sit­com, The Hon­ey­moon­ers, star­ring Jack­ie Glea­son began as
    a skit seg­ment on dif­fer­ent vari­ety shows before being picked up by
    CBS. It ran on its own from 1955 through 1956.
     
    �       The 1963 film Cleopa­tra cost $44 mil­lion to pro­duce, but only took
    in $40 mil­lion in tick­et sales, mak­ing it one of the first true box office
    bombs.
     
    �            Actor Ken Osmond played Eddie Haskell in the late 1950s-ear­ly
    1960s Amer­i­can sit­com Leave it to Beaver. After the show end­ed, he
    was a Los Ange­les Police offi­cer for 18 years.
     
    �       When the Music Tele­vi­sion (MTV) net­work first aired on August 1,
    1981, rel­a­tive­ly few peo­ple were watch­ing. The first video to play
    was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Bug­gles.
     
    �       The UK’s Video Record­ing Act 1984 stat­ed that VCR tapes for rent
    or sale had to be clas­si­fied by the gov­ern­ment. This law was the result
    of exploita­tion films, which the gov­ern­ment called “video nas­ties,”
    that evad­ed the cen­sors.
     
    �       A TV set would cost $129 to $1,295 in the 1950s. A col­or set would
    be at the high end of the scale, eas­i­ly over $1,000.
     
    �       Stan Lee is the high­est-gross­ing actor of all time at $30,607,168,726,
    but that includes cameos and voice act­ing. Samuel Jack­son is sec­ond
    with $27,684,734,363.
     
    �       The Simp­sons have bro­ken many records in Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion. For
    the num­ber of sea­sons and episodes, it is the  longest-run­ning
    ani­mat­ed series,  longest-run­ning sit­com, and the  longest-run­ning
    script­ed prime­time tele­vi­sion series.
     
    �            Thomas Edi­son was influ­en­tial in the ear­ly film indus­try. He
    invent­ed a motion pic­ture view­er called the kine­to­scope and start­ed
    film stu­dios in New Jer­sey and New York.
     

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