I Learned Something Today

[Mandouga]

Although “Welcome to the New World” (from Kirby and the Forgotten Land) is officially sung in gibberish, there’s a reason why the English lyrics don’t line up with the notes being sung. I saw a video of the part where this plays in the Japanese version (Hoshi no Kirby: Discovery), and I discovered that the song was clearly intended to be sung in Japanese.

EDIT (7-19-22):

The phrase “too big to fail” doesn’t necessarily mean that a large company can’t ever fail. What it does mean is that if a large company does fail, it would have a major impact on whatever industry it’s part of.

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[AdrenalineRush1996]

The Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha" was originally written for Paris Hilton.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Today's Google Doodle is a tribute to Hong Konger comedienne Lydia Shum, who would've turned 77 on this day.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Korean Australian singer Dami Im is the first singer of Asian descent to finish in the top two of the Eurovision Song Contest.

 

[Mandouga]

When Conan the Destroyer (1984) was made, it got an R rating at first, but then the decision was made to tone down the violence, but it only got a PG rating because PG-13 didn't quite exist just yet. On a related note...

The original Red Dawn was the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating. Also...

Kull the Conqueror is based on Robert E. Howard's other barbarian hero. Not only that, it was originally going to be "Conan the Conqueror".

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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Rihanna's "Umbrella" was almost a Britney Spears song.

 

[Mandouga]

It’s against Japanese law for married couples to have separate surnames. On the other hand, that doesn’t appear to have stopped Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter), and Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) from using their original names as their professional names. In any case, I’ll bet that’s part of the reason why husbands sometimes take their wives’ last names…

Also:

Togashi-san, and Takeuchi-san have been married since 1999.


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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Bangkok is actually the nickname for the Thai capital city as the actual name (shortened for this post) is Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Japanese footballer Kazuyoshi Miura is the only professional footballer to have played in five consecutive decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s).

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Finland and Sweden have variations of each other's language (Finland Swedish and Sweden Finnish).

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" was originally written for Pink and Hilary Duff.

 

[Red Arrow]

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest has two audios: one where the drums (?) can be heard clearly and another where the drums are less audible.

"Lyrics":
TUM TUM
(tadada tada)
TUM TUM
(tadada tada)
TUM TUM
(tadada tada)
TUM TUM
(tadada tada)
TUM TUM, TUM TUM, TUM TUM, TUM TUM
etc.



There is also an intro with "Cartoon Network presents" instead of "Hanna-Barbera presents".

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Disney does NOT own the song "When You Wish Upon A Star." In fact, they own NONE of the songs from Snow White, Pinocchio or Dumbo (nor Fantasia, but that's a different situation as all those pieces were public domain). An outfit called Bourne Music Co. holds the actual copyright to the soundtracks from those films. This is very surprising as Disney has shown multiple times they would rather stop using something if they don't own it outright, than pay the folks that do.

Bourne Co. Music Publishers - Wikipedia

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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Peter Criss was the first Kiss member to appear without his iconic makeup when he appeared on the cover for his third album Let Me Rock You.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The founders of Columbia Pictures, Harry and Jack Cohn and Joe Brandt began their career at Independent Moving Pictures, the studio that would later be reorganised as Universal Pictures.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

So all this time I've been wondering if there's a widescreen version of The Brave Little Toaster out there. Turns out....there actually isn't. Someone got their hands on a 35mm theater print and discovered it was shot in 4:3 and meant to be cropped by the projector into 16:9. The film's producer confirmed to this guy that BLT was animated under the assumption this cropping would happen.

So the lo-def version we've had all this time is actually open matte, and if Disney were to make a widescreen version, THAT would be cropped and we'd miss details.

 

[PinkieLopBun]

There was animation being made in the 1800s. I knew Winsor McCay wasn't the first to do it, but I didn't know there was anything that early.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' original name was Tony Flow and the Majestic Masters of Mayhem.

 

[Mandouga]

The American electronics company Zenith (which is now part of the Korean company LG) was the original inventor of the remote control device, and that was back in the 1950s.

The first “clickers” were wired, which a lot of people didn’t like. It wasn’t until the late 1950s or early 1960s (not quite sure which) that wireless remote controls were introduced.

The fact that Zenith invented remote controls is also why the game show “Remote Control” referred to its board as the “Big Zenith”.


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[Red Arrow]

Two days ago, I learned that when Japanese is written horizontally, you have to read it from left to right. Strange how it took me so long to find out about it.

This means Japanese school books are all printed like Western school books (especially math, which is never written vertically), rather than "flipped" like mangas.