12 Mind-Blowing Facts That Sound Completely Made Up But Are Actually 100% True

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When MGM began casting The Wizard of Oz in the late 1930s, the studio originally envisioned the Wicked Witch of the West as a glamorous and beautiful character, who they intended to be similar to the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Wicked was always meant to be a movie.

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Oreos, arguably the most famous cookie in the world, actually began as a copycat product.

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Our perception of ancient Greek and Roman buildings and statues as being made of pure white marble is largely thanks to one man: Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

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The “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas is one of the most iconic moments in TV history, and it all happened by accident because the producers and writers had no idea what to do with the show’s plot.

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Corn Flakes weren’t originally invented as a breakfast cereal but rather as part of a bland foods health reform movement in the late 19th century.

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Saturday Night Live was created because of an ongoing dispute Johnny Carson was having with NBC.

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Disneyland likely would never have been built had the city of Burbank not rejected Walt Disney’s plans to build a smaller park there.