70 Show facts
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The writers of "That 70's Show" theme song get $70 each time the show airs. He refers to it as "That $70 Show"
Mila Kunis' mom made her work at Rite Aid scooping ice cream even after she became famous while working on That 70's Show.
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The famous Jeopardy "Think!" theme was composed by the show's creator Merv Griffin in less than a minute as a lullaby for his son. By 2005, he had made over $70 million dollars in royalties from that song, the equivalent of a Jeopardy contestant winning every game for about a decade.
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Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years whereas flowering plants came along around 130 million years ago. Butterflies survived without flowers for 70 million years
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Topher Grace of 'That 70's Show' edited all three 'Star Wars' prequels into one condensed film that has been highly praised as a better version.
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Over 70% of the restaurants on Kitchen Nightmares closed after the show.
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A DNA study shows that the entire indigenous population in the New World before 1492 might have been descendants of only 70 people who crossed the Beringia before the Ice Age ended
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70's Show" premiered in 1998, 28 years after 1970. If a hypothetical "That 90's Show" were to air with the same offset, it would premiere 3 years from now.
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Ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test where potentially pregnant women peed on barley and wheat seeds. Plant growth indicated pregnancy: Barley for boy; wheat for woman. Later tests show urine of pregnant women does cause plant growth 70% of the time, while urine of non-pregnant does not.
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Mila Kunis was 14 years old when she auditioned for "That 70's Show". She said she'd be 18 on her birthday, but never said which birthday
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The actress who played Laurie on that 70's show died in her sleep at a rehab facility from "multiple drug intoxication" in 2013
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In the 70's, Chuck Berry toured with only a guitar, finding some local bands for each show "confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music" and not even giving them a set list "and just expected the musicians to follow his lead".
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Francis from "Malcolm in the Middle," Hyde from "That 70's Show" and Tara from "The Walking Dead" are siblings.
The band Rammstein was named after the Ramstein air show disaster, a mid-air collision between 3 stunt planes that killed 70 people and wounded approximately 1,000 people. - source
The actors who play Tara (The Walking Dead), Hyde (That 70's Show), and Francis (Malcolm in the Middle) are all siblings and Scientologists - source
The Simpsons was nearly cancelled before its first episode. When the first episode came back, the animation was so appalling that the staff considered halting show production. 70% of the animation had to be redone before it could air.
Red Foreman in That 70's Show was supposed to be played by Chuck Norris, but he was unable to make his audition due to scheduling conflicts - source
In Season 5 of "That 70's Show," every episode is named after a Led Zeppelin song.
Chuck Norris was almost signed to play the role of Red Foreman in That 70's Show. He was unavailable due to filming Walker, Texas Ranger!
Glenn Howerton (Dennis on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") starred in a thirteen episode long spinoff of "That 70's" show called "That 80's Show".
Leonard Nimoy received 35 letters the first week of 'Star Trek', doubling the next. He was soon receiving 2,700 letters a week (70% from women), and the show rewrote scripts to have Spock beam down with Kirk to the planet instead of staying on the Enterprise.
Lisa Robin Kelly, who played Laurie Forman on That 70's Show, died of a drug overdose in 2013, two months after passing out behind the wheel while driving on I-5.
The writers and performers of That 70s Show theme song, "In the Street," Alex Chilton and Chris Bell were payed exactly $70 in royalties each time the show aired.
