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When explorers first saw the Giant Sequoia trees in Northern California, they named the biggest one "The Discovery Tree," and immediately made plans to cut it down. The felled tree was used to advertise as a tourist attraction with the tree's stump used as a dance floor.

The floor in the music video for Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity never moved. The entire set was put on wheels, with the camera attached to one wall. Movers would yell NORTH! and Jay Kay would have to dance corresponding to the movements of the set, giving the illusion of moving with the floor.

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1. The band "Blood On The Dance Floor" cancelled their Australian tour because they only sold 6 tickets

2. John Travolta "saved" his iconic solo dance scene in Saturday Night Fever from the cutting floor. The director edited the scene for close-ups. Travolta insisted that the scene be re-edited to show his footwork.

3. In Texas the school homecoming dance corsage usually given by the guy to the girl has evolved into a hugely elaborate item, known as a "mum", with some almost eclipse the wearer, weigh up to 20lbs and drape to the floor.

4. David Attenborough (famous British naturalist) managed to film this unusual behavior in 1996. He placed leaves in front of the male bird and waited for the reaction. Male was provoked and immediately started to clean the leaves from his "dance floor".

5. The legendary dance floor scene in "Saturday Night Fever" used Boz Scaggs "Lowdown", but Columbia refused to grant clearance for the song. The studio rushed to replace the music, hiring the Bee Gees, who wrote "Stayin' Alive".

6. The lead singer of Blood on the Dance Floor has been accused of child molestation multiple times, including in the case of 11-year-old Jessi Slaughter

7. Napster creator, Sean Parker, was fined $2.5mil after creating a movie-set like wedding site for his wedding at Big Sur in 2013 after he built a cottage, fake ruins, waterfalls, staircases and a huge dance floor without proper permits.

8. Michael Jackson's album "Blood on the Dance Floor", despite receiving mixed reviews in the US, has sold six million copies worldwide, making it the best selling remix album ever released

9. Michael Jackson patented that leaning-forward dance move. And that it was achieved by engaging a retractable hitch in the floor.

10. Along with the biggest selling album of all time Thriller Michael Jackson also has the biggest selling remix album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix

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The Versailles Wedding Hall Disaster, when twenty three guests died after the dance floor collapsed.

Harambee High School in Philadelphia operated a nightclub, complete with bar and dance floor in the school cafeteria after students went home. - source

Dahvie Vanity, frontman for Blood on the Dance Floor, wrote a song titled "You Done Goofed" where he calls 11 year old Jessi Slaughter who made a rape accusation against him a slut and says she'll be "cutting herself fucked". He also calls everyone who's made an accusation against him a 'hater'. - source

The actor that opened the dance floor (Freddy) in It's a Wonderful Life, was played by Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer (Alfalfa from The Little Rascals)

In 17th- and 18th-century Scandinavia, people buried horse skulls under their floor boards because the skulls both improved the acoustics of dancing during a celebration and were believed to ward off evil. - source

They make sustainable dance floors that can generate electricity via kinetic energy

Madonna's 'Hung Up' went to #1 in 41 countries and holds the Guinness World Record for a song topping the most countries, despite never reaching #1 in USA. The parent album 'Confessions on the Dance Floor' holds the record for topping charts in most countries, with 40.