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The original Aladdin opening song "Arabian Nights" was "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face" but Disney had to censor it because of political sensitivity.

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Aladdin was added to The Arabian Nights by a French translator in the sixteenth century. It originally took place in China and he rubbed a ring, not a lamp.

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1. Disney’s Aladdin was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most controversial films, due to the original releases ‘Arabian Nights’ verse: “...Where they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face / It’s barbaric, but, hey, it’s home”. This lyric was changed in the 1993 video release.

2. Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp was added to Arabian Nights in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland, and doesn't belong to the original collection

3. The fictional author of the Necronomicon, Abdul Alhazred, coined by H.P. Lovecraft, was the name he called himself when he played pretend as a child after reading "Arabian Nights."

4. Richard Francis Burton, an East India Company official, spoke more than 29 languages, translated The Arabian Nights and Kama Sutra into English. He sneaked into Mecca for Hajj (for which non-Muslims are prohibited) in disguise. He was also said to measure the penises of men he encountered.

5. Unlike other collections of fairy tales, A Thousand and One Arabian Nights ended its stories with the rough translation "they lived happily ever after; until they died".

6. Sesame Street got its name after "Open Sesame" from the Arabian nights

7. There is a giant astronomical database, used by astronomers everywhere, whose subsections are all named after characters from Arabian Nights

8. The most well known 1001 Arabian nights' stories (Alladin, Sinbad and Ali Babba) were added to the tales by a french translator. In fact, Alladin isn't even from the middle east, but the far east.

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