1. Despite having a ton of hit songs, "Dreams" is the only Fleetwood Mac song to go No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2. Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" was the song that spent the longest amount of time at No. 1 during the 1980s.
3. Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and cowrote The Empire Strikes Back, also wrote the original script for The Bodyguard in the '70s.
4. The mid-'70s version of The Bodyguard was meant to be a movie featuring Steve McQueen as Frank "the bodyguard" and Diana Ross as the pop singer he is hired to protect.
5. Despite the fact that she was starring on a hit TV show, Marla Gibbs — who played housekeeper Florence on The Jeffersons — kept her job with United Airlines for two years after the show started.
6. Alaska Thunderfuck's iconic "HIIIIIYEEEEE" wasn't created by her nor was she the first queen to say it on RuPaul's Drag Race; it was actually first said by Ongina on Season 1.
7. Will Smith doesn't like to watch the first few episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, because, according to him, he used to memorize the entire script, and because of that he would mouth other actor's lines during the scenes.
8. Madonna dressing in a big white fur coat and cowboy hat in the video for "Music" is one of her most iconic music video looks. But there is a reason why she was dressed like that and why the video was shot the way it was: she was pregnant with her son, Rocco, at the time.
9. "Thank You for Being a Friend" wasn't The Golden Girls producers first choice for the theme song (I KNOW, I KNOW). They actually wanted to use Bette Midler's song "Friends," but the licensing fee was too expensive so they were forced to look for another song.
10. Early in the development of The Little Mermaid, both Joan Collins and Bea Arthur were approached to voice Ursula.
11. Dynasty's Alexis Carrington is one of the most iconic characters in TV history, but Joan Collins wasn't who the producers had in mind for the role. They originally offered the role to Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren — who both turned it down.
12. There were three episodes of A Different World that didn't air during the show's original run.
13. Quentin Tarantino wrote the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction with Michael Madsen in mind (John Travolta was actually his second choice) and offered it to him, but Michael turned it down.
14. The first US reality show was the PBS series An American Family, which debuted in 1973.
15. The first show shot in HD to air in the US was the 1990 BBC miniseries The Ginger Tree.
16. Cher's record label did NOT like the auto-tune part in "Believe" and wanted her to remove it.
17. The Beatles were given honorary MTV Vanguard Awards —along with Richard Lester who directed their films A Hard Day's Night and Help! — at the very first VMAs in 1984, for "essentially inventing the music video."
18. Dolly Parton secretly coproduced Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as well as Angel).
19. Hocus Pocus was originally a short story that the film's producer, David Kirschner, submitted to Muppet Magazine in the early '80s, which is based on a bedtime story he told his kids.
20. And finally, there has been a virtual presidential debate before. In fact, it was 60 years ago — John F. Kennedy was in New York City, while Richard Nixon was in Los Angeles during the third debate.
10/13/60: "Unlike the first two programs, however, the two candidates will not be sharing same platform. In New York...John F. Kennedy separated by 3,000 miles in a Los Angeles studio...Richard Nixon. Now joined for tonight's discussion by network of electronic facilities..."