The Muppets version of the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” has nearly twice the number of views as the original Queen music video.
More specifically, the Muppet version has 18,534,318 views. The Queen version has 11,521,062. The Queen video has been up for over a year longer too.
Sea urchins have self-sharpening teeth.
Urchins are infamous for their spiny outer shell, but most people do not know that these creatures are able to chew through rock! The secret to this unique ability lies in the composition of their teeth, which are only 2 centimeters long. Scientists examined urchins’ teeth with an x-ray to find that 200 million years of evolution has created an ingenious organic structure. Their teeth contain a pattern of crystalline calcite plates and fibers held…
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
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There are 24 drawings for every second in animated cartoons.
It takes 6 months to produce an episode of The Simpsons.
The writing and editing take place at Gracie Films, six months before the airing of the episodes. After that, much of the animation is done in Korea. (source)
On the other hand, it only takes 6 days to make an episode of South Park, with rewrites of parts of an episode occurring even while animation and production has already started.
See how a South Park episode is made.
In an intro conceived by guest artist Banksy, …
If the world’s population stood shoulder to shoulder, we would only fill an area the size of the city of Los Angeles.
