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Nightmare before Christmas
It made only 91 million dollars in the box office. It was a flop on release but now it is a very well-known movie. | The entire movie was based on just one poem. The poem is called Twas the Night Before Christmas | Night mare before Christmas as been ut for over 25 years. It came out in 1993

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"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) is over two decades old and it's widely considered to be a Halloween movie (even the film's director agrees).

The film's songs were written before its script was.

The movie was supposed to have a different ending that involved a surprise villain reveal.

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"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) is one of the most iconic Halloween movies of all time that's also popular in December.

The beloved animated feature is over 25 years old, but there's a lot you still may not know about it.

Here are some surprising things you never knew about "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

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18 things you didn't know about 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

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"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) is over two decades old and it's widely considered to be a Halloween movie (even the film's director agrees). The film's songs were written before its script was. The movie was supposed to have a different ending that involved a surprise villain reveal.

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Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 sold 32 million units before it got discontinued in 2002. | The Nintendo 64 was a ground-breaking console, being the first 64-bit processor console. | It had 3 name changes and finally went back to the formal name Nintendo 64

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The Nintendo 64, or N64 as it's vastly known, was a ground-breaking console in many respects.

A truly revolutionary console that held many firsts and lasts of modern gaming.

A console that helped shape gaming as it is today.

So there will be a few things that surprise you to learn about the N64, like did you know that they had some help designing the graphics drive?

Or that there was also a disc-drive expansion to the N64?

All of these and more mind-blogging facts are here, so all you retro readers out there enjoy them.

The Nintendo 64 went through a few name changes before its release. When developers started working on it they gave it the code-name 'Project Reality'. It was later named the 'Nintendo Ultra 64', in honor of several toys made in the 1960's such as the 'Ultra Hand', although this name was shortened to just the 'Nintendo 64' as Konami held a trademark on the name 'Ultra Games'.

When the N64 came out it was in very high demand. Several celebrities - including Steven Spielberg, Matthew Perry, and a few of the Chicago Bulls - tried contacting Nintendo to play the celebrity card and get preferential treatment in receiving one.

By December 31, 2009, the N64 had sold 32.93 million units. 5.54 million of them were sold in Japan, 6.76 million in other regions worldwide, and a whopping 20.63 million were sold in the Americas. That's right, just under two-thirds of N64s sold in the first year were sold in North and South America!

The Nintendo 64 was a ground-breaking console, being the first 64-bit processor console.

The N64's controller was also the first controller to ever feature an analog stick. That's right, 3D graphics AND the analog stick, the N64 really did have it all.

However, the analog stick wasn't all good news. Many of the mini-games in Mario Party required players to use the analog stick, most often with the palm of their hands, which would sometimes cause the players to get blisters on their hands. After a successful lawsuit against Nintendo, they were legally required to give gloves to players with the game as a safety precaution.

When most people think of the N64, they see the gray console Nintendo originally released. As Nintendo grew with the success of the N64, they released a whole host of different colored N64's in green, blue, orange, red, black, and pink.

As well as the different colored consoles, Nintendo also released some special edition versions of the N64, including two blue and one orange Pikachu editions, as well as a Pokémon Battle Set version, a Jungle Green edition to commemorate the release of Donkey Kong 64, and a Gold edition exclusive to Toys R Us stores.

Speaking of Donkey Kong 64, this game holds a unique title amongst all N64 games as it is the one with the longest amount of gameplay.

When the Nintendo 64 first came out, it had only 2 games available to its users across the world. However, Japan was lucky enough to get a third game, Saikyo Habu Shogi, along with Super Mario 64 and Pilot Wings 64.

Although there were only 2-3 games to start with on the N64, Nintendo released a whole library of games as time went on, bringing the total up to just shy of 400 games!

The final N64 cartridge ever made was Tony Hawk Pro Skater and was released in 2002.

At the end of World War II, South Korea banned Japanese cultural imports, meaning that the N64 was banned. Because of this, it was released by South Korean company Hyundai and was re-branded as the Comboy 64.

The N64 was the last major console to use cartridges. Despite this, there was a disc drive add-on called the 64DD showcased at the 1999 Space World Today game show in Japan, but this was never released outside of Japan.

As an expansion of the 64DD, the N64 also had an online service where players could download demos and compete online. It cost $25 a month, but like the 64DD, it never made it out of Japan.

Founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen, proposed to Nintendo the idea of creating an online service for the N64. However, Nintendo backed out of this as they wanted full control of the N64.

In Japan, the Nintendo 64 was actually an under-seller! Many believe the reason for this was due to the fact that it had a lot fewer Role Playing Games (or RPGs) than the PlayStation, which is one of the most popular genres of games in Japan.

The N64's release was delayed until 1996, after the Sega Saturn and Sony's PlayStation had already come out. However, the impending release coupled with the N64's low cost meant that many people waited for the N64 rather than buy one of its competitors. The N64 was officially released in the US on September 29, 1996.

Unlike its predecessors, the NES and the SNES, the N64 has maintained barely any status as a collectible console. Available at release for roughly $200 you can now pick up an N64 (depending on extras and what edition) for about $100.

During the development of the N64, Nintendo had some help developing the 3D graphics hardware and the microprocessor used in the N64 from both Silicon Graphics and MIPS technology. Due to this help and the great success of the Nintendo 64, we have the revolutionary graphics that today's consoles give us.

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20 Interesting Facts About the Nintendo 64 - The Fact Site

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The Nintendo 64, or N64 as it's vastly known, was a ground-breaking console in many respects. A truly revolutionary console that held many firsts and lasts of modern gaming. A console that helped shape gaming as it is today.

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Columbian shooting.
13 Dead and 20 wounded in the shooting. The killer did not make it out of the school alive. It was multiple people that did the shooting. | It took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. | prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17.

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Table of Contents

1. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris

2. Columbine Shooting Victims

3. She Said 'Yes'

4. Columbine Shooting Investigation

5. Columbine Massacre Aftermath

The Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred when two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide.

The Columbine shooting was, at the time, the worst high school shooting in U.S. history and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17. Subsequent school shootings, including at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, continue to raise questions about school safety and gun control in the United States.

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris

At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in trench coats, began shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver. The pair then moved inside the school, where they gunned down many of their victims in the library.

By approximately 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 other people. Shortly after 12 p.m., the two teens turned their guns on themselves.

Investigators later learned Harris and Klebold had arrived in separate cars at Columbine around 11:10 on the morning of the massacre. The two then walked into the school cafeteria, where they placed two duffel bags each containing a 20-pound propane bomb set to explode at 11:17 a.m.

The teens then went back outside to their cars to wait for the bombs to go off. When the bombs failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold began their shooting spree.

Columbine Shooting Victims

Victims of the Columbine shooting include Cassie Bernall, 17; Steven Curnow, 14; Corey DePooter, 17; Kelly Fleming, 16; Matthew Kechter, 16; Daniel Mauser, 15; Daniel Rohrbough, 15; William "Dave" Sanders, 47; Rachel Scott, 17; Isaiah Shoels, 18; John Tomlin, 16; Lauren Townsend, 18, and Kyle Velasquez, 16.

She Said 'Yes'

In the days immediately following the shootings, it was speculated that Harris and Klebold purposely chose athletes, minorities and Christians as their victims.

It initially was reported that one student, Cassie Bernall, was asked by one of the gunmen if she believed in God. When Bernall allegedly said, "Yes," she was shot to death. Her parents later wrote a book titled She Said Yes, honoring their daughter.

However, it later was determined the question was not posed to Bernall but to another student who already had been wounded by a gunshot. When that victim replied, "Yes," the shooter walked away.

Columbine Shooting Investigation

Subsequent investigations determined Harris and Klebold chose their victims randomly, and the two teens originally had intended to bomb their school, potentially killing hundreds of people.

There was speculation that Harris and Klebold committed the killings because they were members of a group of social outcasts called the Trenchcoat Mafia that was fascinated by Goth culture. It also was speculated that Harris and Klebold had carried out the shootings as retaliation for being bullied.

Additionally, violent video games and music were blamed for influencing the killers. However, none of these theories was ever proven.

Through journals left behind by Harris and Klebold, investigators eventually discovered the teens had been planning for a year to bomb the school in an attack similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Investigative journalist Dave Cullen, author of the 2009 book Columbine, described Harris as "the callously brutal mastermind," while Klebold was a "quivering depressive who journaled obsessively about love and attended the Columbine prom three days before opening fire."

Did you know? The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history took place on April 16, 2007, when a gunman killed 32 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Columbine Massacre Aftermath

In the aftermath of the shootings, many schools across America enacted "zero-tolerance" rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students. Columbine High School reopened in the fall of 1999, but the massacre left a scar on the Littleton community.

Mark Manes, the man who sold a gun to Harris and bought him 100 rounds of ammunition the day before the murders, was sentenced to six years in prison. Another man, Philip Duran, who introduced Harris and Klebold to Manes, also was sentenced to prison time.

Some victims and families of people killed or injured filed suit against the school and the police; most of these suits were later dismissed in court.

The list of school shootings in the United States grows longer every year, and includes the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, the Robb Elementary shooting in 2022, the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018 and the Umpqua Community College shooting in 2015, among others.

Gun control and disagreements over the interpretation of the Second Amendment continue to be a controversial issue in the United States, where 45,000 people die from gun-related injuries each year.

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Columbine High School Shooting: Victims & Killers

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The Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred when two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide.

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Bill clinton.
He won 2 elections in a row to do 8 years of office | He was president during one of the longest times of peace in America. | He was elected right after the cold war ended.

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Bill Clinton is an American politician from Arkansas who served as the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby-boomer generation President.

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Honda Accord
The Honda Accord is one of the most sold vehicles in the world around 200,00 sold each year! | It can go to 60 miles in 5.5 seconds | The starting price is around 20k.

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Though the Honda Accord originated in Japan, it's as American as apple pie as far as stateside consumers are concerned. A perpetual best-seller in the US, the Accord has proven to be a quality vehicle year after year. Check out these 15 fun facts about the Accord!

1. Believe it or not, the Accord was the first foreign vehicle to be manufactured in the United States. It was first produced in 1982 at Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio.

2. The Accord was the first foreign car to become the best selling vehicle in the United States, pulling off the feat in 1989.

3. Honda has produced more than 10.5 million Accords in the US since production began in Ohio.

4. The Accord has been named in Car and Driver's annual "10Best" list 30 times, more than any other vehicle.

5. The first Accord produced in 1976 was a hatchback. A sedan model wouldn't come around until 1979.

6. The original Accord engine was a 1.6L four-cylinder engine with an output of 68 horsepower.

7. In 2011, a man named Joe LoCicero pushed his 1990 Honda Accord over the one million mile mark, all with the original engine and transmission. Honda honored the occasion by throwing LoCicero a parade and giving him a new Accord.

8. In 1995, the Honda Accord finally received its first V6 engine.

9. Honda chose the name "Accord" to reflect their "desire for accord and harmony between people, society and the automobile."

10. In total, more than 12.7 million Accords have been sold worldwide since its debut in 1976.

11. The Honda Accord has two special "green" distinctions. First, it is an ULEV, or ultra low emissions vehicle. The other distinction is PZEV, or partial zero emissions vehicle.

12. In 2004, Honda tested the diesel-powered Honda Accord 2.2 i-CTDi Sport on a closed German track, setting 19 land speed records in the process.

13. Though Honda discontinued the plug-in Hybrid Accord, the 2014 model got an incredible 115 mpge!

14. All-Pro Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is steadfast and reliable-it's no wonder he drives an Accord!

15. The 1994 Honda Accord has topped the list for most stolen vehicle in the US for years. It's unfortunately easy to break into, and the parts are worth good money.

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