There are some cool and unknown facts that u don't know about television.
- One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” (1931) which featured an actor dressed as dead people telling the stories of their murders.
- Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘f**k’ on television most times in one live broadcast.
- Most people dream in color, but those that grew up watching black and white television often dream in black and white.
- British show Top Gear is the most watched television show with an estimated 350 million weekly viewers in 170 countries.
- The first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.
- Richard Belzer as John Munch is the only fictional character, played by a single actor, to appear on 10 different television shows including Law & Order: SVU, The X-Files, The Wire, and Arrested Development.
- After President Kennedy’s death in 1963, the television networks aired four days of commercial-free coverage of his funeral, burial, and other proceedings, costing them about $100 million in lost advertising revenue. About 93% of American homes watched some coverage.
- A 1995 television documentary film called “The Dying Rooms” was made about Chinese state orphanages. The film documents rooms where babies and children (mostly disabled/female) were left to die of thirst or starvation as it was illegal to kill a child directly, but not through neglect.
- In 1987, a man hijacked a television station during an episode of Dr. Who and wore a Max Headroom mask and uttered nonsense, and he still hasn’t been caught.
- The inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” – Philo T Farnsworth.
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