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The Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based on Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
Pokemon is an RPG known for its world-building, which includes creating Pokemon inspired from animals, objects, space, and – turns out – even renowned martial artists. Generation 1’s Fighting type Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were made as homages to the great kung fu masters.
All the Professors in Pokemon have been named after trees.
If you’ve played or watched Pokemon, you’d notice that through all generations, the Professors are named after trees: Professor Oak of Gen I, Professor Elm of Gen II, Professor Birch of Gen III, all up to Professor Sycamore of Gen IX.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first American film to have a soundtrack.
In 1937, Snow White became the first American film to ever release a soundtrack. The songs were composed by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey while Paul J. Smith and Leigh Harline composed the music score.
The Little Mermaid was Disney’s first princess movie in 30 years.
When Disney released Sleeping Beauty, it was such a box office bomb that the company was put off creating princess movies. Disney didn’t make another princess movie until 30 years later, when The Little Mermaid was released in 1989.
Jackie Chan voiced the Beast in the Chinese dub of The Beauty And The Beast.
Jackie Chan dubbed the Beast’s voice for the Chinese translation of the Beauty and the Beast—including the singing.
The Lion King was the first original Disney movie.
The Lion King was the first animated Disney film that was not an adaptation of an existing story.
Bees bite.
To protect their hives from outsiders, some “guard bees” will monitor the entrance and sniff bees that come in. If they find an outsider bee from another hive, the guard bee will bite and sting the intruder.
Kids ask about 300 questions a day.
A 2013 study showed that the average kid asks one question every 2 minutes and 36 seconds. Of all types of children, girls aged four are the most curious, asking 390 questions per day. Interestingly, 82% of children would ask their mother first before their father.
T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
However, people really didn’t pay much mind to T-shirts until the 1950s.
Fact: A waffle iron inspired one of the first pairs of Nikes
Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach in the 1950s who didn’t like how running shoes were made. He first created the Cortez shoe but wanted a sneaker that was even lighter and could be worn on a variety of surfaces. During a waffle breakfast with his wife in 1970, he came up with the idea of using the waffle texture on the soles of running shoes. Waffle-soled shoes made their big debut in the 1972 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Oregon.
Fact: Boars wash their food
National Geographic reported that at Basel Zoo in Switzerland, zookeepers watched adult and juvenile wild boars pick up sandy apples and bring them to a nearby creek in their environment to wash before eating. Though some items like sugar beets were eaten without the human-like behavior, the boars brought a whole dead chicken to the creek to wash before chowing down. One ecologist called this a “luxury behavior.” Find out which other animals are the smartest.