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The classic 101 Dalmatians animated film sold more tickets in the United States than Avatar or Avengers: Endgame

The author of 101 Dalmatians wrote an official sequel where Cadpig is the prime minister, dogs gain the ability to fly and an alien dog tries to start the apocalypse.

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1. The sequel to the original "101 Dalmatians" book involved an alien dog coming to earth and inviting all the Earth dogs back to his home planet to avoid human nuclear war.

2. The 1996 live action film version of "101 Dalmatians" led to a large increase in dalmatians sales. However, due to them being a difficult breed of dog to take care of, many dalmatians were later taken to pounds and put down.

3. After the release of Disney's 101 Dalmatians, parents were in a craze to purchase one for their kids for Christmas. This led to a lot of them being abandoned due to their aggressive behavior and genetic health problems.

4. The author of 101 Dalmatians got the idea for her book when her friend said "Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat."

5. The sequel novel to 101 Dalmatians involves an extraterrestrial dog that tries to save the dogs of Earth from nuclear war.

6. Following the release of the 101 Dalmatian films, The breed suffered greatly due to inexperienced owners buying and quickly abandoning dogs due to their high energy difficult behaviors.

7. Dalmatian often chooses one family member and builds strong bond with him/her, and ignores the rest of the family. It doesn"t always get along with children. Dalmatian became extremely popular after the movie "101 Dalmatian", which didn"t show exact nature of this dog. Many Dalmatian puppies adopted after the movie were soon left on the streets, when people discovered "true" nature and high needs of this breed.

8. An episode of the 101 Dalmatians cartoon was banned from airing after the 9/11 attacks, due to the scene in where Spot flies her plane around a Tower, along with crashing into it, as it resembles the 9/11 attack.

9. Dr. House and Arthur Weasley were the two henchman in 101 Dalmatians.

10. The film 101 Dalmatians caused disastrous consequences for the breed when large numbers of families adopted one, without knowing how to take care of it, abandoning it soon after.

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Glenn Close attended the 101 Dalmatians premiere in New York City in character as Cruella de Vil, and even got some writers to come up with Cruella-esque responses to expected journalist questions