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In the late 1990s, a man studying the underground chambers of the Colosseum found patterns of holes, notches and grooves in the walls. By connecting the dots of the negative space, he discovered that a system of elevators had been used to transport wild animals and scenery to the main floor.

Casey Kasem was a devout vegan, supported animal rights and environmental causes, and was a critic of factory farming.He initially quit voicing Shaggy in the late 1990s,when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.

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  1. In the late 1990s, certain digital cameras used 3.5-inch floppy disks for picture storage

  2. Game Of Thrones' and 'Westworld' composer Ramin Djawadi kicked off his career in the late 1990s by composing music for a video game that sold poorly, but would later be regarded as revolutionary in the video game industry. The game was System Shock 2.

  3. The Los Zetas cartel was formed by a group of commando’s who defected from the Mexican army in the late 1990s. It is considered by the U.S. government to be the "most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico."

  4. The Bionicle line helped save Lego from its financial crisis of the late 1990s, becoming one of its biggest and most successful product lines.

  5. BMW recalled its GPS system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after German men drivers refused to take directions from the female voice.

  6. An Indian burial site in Nashville, Tenn. was demolished to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter the late 1990s. . By the time excavations were completed in August 1998, the remains of 154 people including children had been taken from their graves.

  7. Cillian Murphy was the frontman for a popular rock band back in his native Ireland.After turning down a record deal, he began his acting career in theatre, and in short and independent films in the late 1990s.

  8. In the late 1990s Jackie Chan changed his birth name to Fong Si-lung. His father's surname was Fong. However Jackie's Hollywood name has stuck with him since his big break in Rush Hour.

  9. UPS provided charter passenger service in the late 1990s. They would install passenger interiors in five of their cargo aircraft each Friday, then fly to/from tropical destinations during the weekend, and convert the planes back to cargo by Monday afternoon.

  10. The Kuznetsov Design Bureau produced a rocket engine in the late 1960s whose technology and performance were considered impossible by western rocket experts as late as the mid 1990s. Derivatives of those engines are used today by the United Launch Alliance on the Atlas V rocket.

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The BIONICLE toyline helped save LEGO from its financial crisis of the late 1990s, accounting for nearly all of LEGO's financial turnover from the previous decade and becoming one of its biggest and most successful product lines.

From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s Michael Jordan is considered to have dominated the professional sport of basketball.

When the Supreme Court became more evenly divided along political lines in the late 1990s, O"Connor was often the swing vote on 5-4 decisions. She usually voted with the conservatives, but sided with the liberals in a number of important cases.

Hershey's was unable to trademark "Kiss" until a survey in the late 1990s showed that Americans no longer considered it a generic word for candy.

In the early 1900s, Swedish Americans founded a small hamlet in the hills of eastern Cuba. Although the colonists either returned to the US or assimilated, as late as the 1990s a handful of Swedish-speakers could still be found in the area. - source

A company actually went through the effort to make a contemporary SD card adapter for the classic late 1990s Game Boy Camera

Although Morelos has a higher standard of living than most Mexican states, crime has been a problem from time to time. During the late 1990s and early 2000s well-organized kidnapping rings preyed upon wealthy citizens in Cuernavaca.

TLC, was initially “The Learning Chanel” and used to focus on educational and learning content but by the late 1990s, the network began to primarily focus towards reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories.

Since the late 1990s, the share of automobiles driven by people in their twenties in America has fallen from 20.8 percent to 13.7 percent. The number of nineteen-year-olds opting out of driver’s licenses has tripled since the 1970s from 8 to 23 percent

Target made a bid to purchase the scaffolding that surrounded the Washington Monument following its refurbishment in the late 1990s, intending to re-erect it in Minneapolis as public art

In the late 90's there was an adult website called www.whitehouse.com that lead to many schoolchildren inadvertently browsing porn all through the late 1990s - as they would confuse it with www.whitehouse.gov or find it searching for information on US Presidents.

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The Godfather Part II was shot between October 1, 1973 and June 19, 1974 and was the last major American motion picture to have release prints made with Technicolor's dye imbibition process until the late 1990s

Some Japanese prisoners of war from World War II weren't repatriated to Japan until the late 1990s--several years after the end of the Cold War.

When O.J. Simpson's Los Angeles home was torn down in the late 1990s, a knife similar to the one used in the murder of his wife Nicole Brown and friend Ron Goldman was found, it was kept as a memento by a police officer

The U.S. Marine Corps tested the usefulness of commercial off-the-shelf skateboards during urban combat military exercises in the late 1990s. Their special purpose was "for maneuvering inside buildings in order to detect tripwires and sniper fire".

Despite being written in 1870, a proper English translation (IE one that does not fiddle with the book's content) of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea wasn't produced until at least the 1960s, possible as late as the 1990s

In the late 1990s, 7 out of 10 visits to porn sites were done during working hours.

A judge formally apologized to Wen Ho Lee, indicted under the Espionage Act in the late 1990s, for believing the government. He later won more than a million dollars in a lawsuit against the government and several newspapers for their mistreatment of him.

Maverick cigarettes were originally branded as Harley Davidson, until relations between Harley and Lorillard Tobacco soured in the late 1990s

Before he became an actor, Jason Lee was known as a professional skateboarder in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is also currently a member of the Church of Scientology

Dan Harmon of Community and Rick & Morty wrote and co-voiced the "Summoner Geeks" sketch in the late 1990s.

The current head of the von Habsburg dynasty, Karl von Habsburg, is a former game show host who served as a Member of European Parliament during the late-1990s

UPN bought the TV show "Malcolm in the Middle" in the late 1990s. After four months of evaluation, they passed on the show, saying it didn’t fit UPN’s target demographic (aka young teens and men). FOX acquired the rights to the series as a result, and it became a critical and commercial success.

When Mike Judge wrote "The Office Space" script back in the late 1990s, it was originally envisioned as a series of four animated short films rather than a full live-action movie

In the late 1990s Jerry Lewis' The Day The Clown Cried was almost remade with Chevy Chase as the lead.

Jesse Eisenberg's sister Hallie Eisenberg was "The Pepsi Girl" In the late 1990s and early 2000s Pepsi commercials.

As late as the 1990s, Chickenpox killed 100-150 Americans a year, and put up to 18,000 per year in the hospital

More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected by HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.

There was a unlicensed Megaman comic from the late 1990s called Novas Aventuras de Megaman. In the comic, it tells the origin story of Megaman's sister Roll as an off-planet slave robot, which is constantly sexualized by some of the characters.

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