12 Random Bits of TV, Movie and Video-Game Trivia to Cram Into Your RCA Jacks

Australia printed up a limited run of Bluey-themed dollar coins, but someone yoinked over half of the stash from a warehouse when they were about to be shipped. They were sold within hours, at 10 times their actual street value.

Dee Bradley Baker has nine LEGO figures to his name. Most of them are from various Star Wars animated films, but he’s also voiced a couple of Marvel and Avatar: The Last Airbender characters as well. It doesn’t have its own LEGO set, but you may recognize Baker as Olmec from Legends of the Hidden Temple.

The trend of rawdogging flights (enduring a flight with no entertainment, only your own thoughts) is kind of tricking young men into meditation, which isn’t the worst thing. In fact, Rawdog Airlines is a flight simulator that lets players enter a virtual commercial airplane and virtually stare straight ahead for as long as they can.

In 2015, gamer Carrie Swidecki played 138 consecutive hours of Just Dance, a game that requires you to be actively moving.

Technically, it’s Superman’s skin that can deflect bullets. But a physics pedant might point out that the force of a speeding bullet has to go somewhere, meaning a hail of bullets would either shove him easily out of the way, or straight-up pulverize his skeleton.

To market MS-DOS 5 in 1991, Microsoft released a rap (and accompanying music video) that explains to programmers how and why they should install it: “We gave it a graphical shell / That’s the ticket / It’s DOS with a prettier face / Yo, kick it!”

Shyamalan said in an interview he shot a weird little alternate ending, but couldn’t bring himself to include it on the Blu-ray: “A car almost hits her, but the guy driving it, which was me by the way, was listening to Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems.’ That was the ending of the movie. Like, I almost hit her. And like, you’re hearing him, ’I got 99 problems, but a…’ So basically, the value system just goes flip at the end.”

He said HBO approached him with an idea for a post-Game of Thrones series, and they developed it together for a couple of years, but it ultimately felt forced (much like the last couple of seasons of GoT). He also said that, on a personal level, “It’s kind of essential to do my job, for people to come and see me and not see Jon Snow.”

The Recording Industry Association of America is the group that gives out those gold and platinum records to artists. The Beastie Boys once tried spinning their golden copy of Paul’s Boutique, and found that the RIAA had actually given them a gilded Barry Manilow record.

An all-Muppet game of Clue is being produced, with Miss Piggy as Miss Scarlet, Kermit as Mayor Green and Fozzie as Colonel Mustard.

Gamer Ibrahim Al-Nasser just set the Guinness World Record by hooking 444 separate consoles into one TV set.

Katy Perry keeps finding exciting new ways to get bad press over her latest album. Most recently, she’s under investigation for damaging dunes at Majorca’s Ses Salines Natural Park when she filmed the single for her latest video, “Lifetime.”