These 11 Mind-Blowing Facts Sound Totally Made Up But Are Actually 100% Real

1.

Zootopia was almost a completely different movie; it was much darker and had Nick Wilde as the main character.

2.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is famously known as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas, but it was actually Coca-Cola that paid for its production.

4.

Bryan Cranston made money (and still makes money) from whistling on Malcolm in the Middle.

7.

The Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t treated as a major event until Michael Jackson performed on it in 1993.

8.

Totally Hair Barbie is the best-selling Barbie of all time, and its success even took Mattel by surprise.

9.

The creator of Garfield originally planned for the comic to star Jon Arbuckle, not Garfield.

10.

The Twilight Zone theme song is one of the most iconic and recognizable pieces of music in television history, but it wasn’t the original theme song.

11.

And finally, Coca-Cola pretty much single-handedly created the version of Santa Claus most people picture today when they think of him.