Despite receiving mixed reviews, the 2015 release of the 007 movie Spectre managed to gross $880 million globally, which is a respectable performance. The Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City is the setting for one of the movie's most iconic moments. It looks like a hell of a time since the streets are crowded with people wearing skeleton costumes, there are floats and decorations, and music is playing. Until Bond almost perishes, that is.

The march wasn't an actual event, something most people who are unfamiliar with the culture were unaware of. A Day of the Dead procession has never been held in Mexico City, and it is not at all how the holiday is observed. The ceremony, which has roots in ancient Aztec culture, was far more solemn than the movie's depiction of it during a large street festival implied. Or, it wasn't until the film was released.

The parade tableau was so well-liked by the public that the city and the Mexican tourism authority decided to recreate it the following year. It was attended by thousands of people and is now a tradition. The parade was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, however it was resumed in 2021.

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Language: English
Budget: $245–300 million
Box office: $880.7 million

In the past 80 or so years, if you have visited a diner, you have probably noticed at least two coffee pots positioned behind the counter. One will have an orange handle, the other a brown, black, or gray handle. This is the standard procedure. Decaffeinated coffee is orange. It's similar to an unspoken rule. Even though it isn't recorded, there is a reason for it, and Sanka, one of the most well-known coffee brands in the world, is in the center of that reason.

Sanka is popular even if you've never purchased it or even heard of it. Or, at least, it was. Starting in 1923, jars of Sanka, a German product, were marketed with an orange label. General Foods acquired the business in 1932 and distributed promotional coffee pots to eateries and coffee shops across America. They were orange pots. Thanks to Sanka's success, it spread so widely that today, everywhere you go, you know that orange denotes decaf.

Japan's Mount Mihara is well-known for some extremely sinister reasons, much like the guillotine. In this instance, the active volcano has developed a reputation as a popular place for people to commit suicide. The volcano, which is situated on the island of Izu Oshima, is surrounded by beautiful countryside and served as Godzilla's home in several of the earlier Toho movies.

Unfortunately, it also made it very simple for people who wanted to end their lives dramatically to reach the end of the road. It's a simple jump into the crater itself if one were to go to the top of the cone and go in the appropriate direction. 944 persons committed suicide in 1933 by doing just that.

The suicide trend is thought to have started some 250 years ago and accelerated in the previous century. The estimate had been made at 2000 between 1936 and 1937. Airlines won't let you buy a one-way ticket to the island, just in case, and the government ultimately decided to erect a barrier around the volcano.

Elevation: 764 m (2,507 ft)

The 1980 arcade labyrinth action video game Pac-Man, also known as Puck Man in Japan, was created and published by Namco. As part of its licensing arrangement with Namco America, Midway Manufacturing distributed the game in North America.

These days, the Google Doodle is a constant in daily internet life. Every day, a new image appears on the Google homepage, and some days it stands out more than others. For instance, it really stands out when it's interactive. However, the first interactive doodle will always be remembered for how annoying it was.

The Pac-Man game was played in Google's first interactive doodle, which was released in May 2010 in honor of the video game's 30th birthday. In spite of being accessible for only 48 hours, 500,000,000 game hours were played during that time. It was estimated that $120 million in lost productivity resulted from the amount of time employees spent playing the game rather than performing the tasks they were supposed to be performing.

Developer(s): Namco
Publisher(s): JP/DE: Namco
NA/FRA: Midway
Designer(s): Toru Iwatani
Programmer(s): Shigeo FunakiShigeichi Ishimura
Artist(s): Hiroshi Ono

The Peter Falk-led detective series Columbo had a remarkable, though irregular, television run. Both a 1968 and a 1971 pilot were broadcast. You're correct if you believe you only recall Columbo from the 1990s and not much earlier. The majority of the 1970s saw its run, and then it returned from 1989 until 2003. They only produced 69 episodes over a period of about 35 years that weren't consecutive.

Although the show had a sizable following in North America, it was so well-liked there that the authorities there was really alarmed. This goes back to 1974 when Columbo was first shown to Romanians, and man, did they enjoy it. After the season was done, the populace expressed their displeasure and laid the responsibility for it on the Romanian government.

Romania had quotas for entertainment at the time. Only a specific amount of US content was permitted on TV. They therefore feared that the authorities would shut it down after the season. The Romanian administration contacted the US State Department to prevent possible civic upheaval. In response, they arranged for Peter Falk to record a message especially for his Romanian followers, in which he gave them the assurance that Columbo would return.

Genre: Crime drama, Detective fiction, Neo-noir
Created by:Richard LevinsonWilliam Link
Starring:Peter Falk
Country of origin:United States
Original language:English
No. of seasons:10
No. of episodes: 69

Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy wrote and directed the movie Ted, which was released in 2012. It's about a stuffed animal that comes to life and develops into a stoner with a filthy mouth. With nearly $200 million in revenue and a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it received mainly favorable reviews. It also gave rise to a sequel, which earned $81 million and received a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes despite being less well-liked by audiences and reviewers. However, a website that compiles movie reviews is by no means the definition of success.

After Ted 2 was released in 2016, a restaurant in Japan with a Ted motif debuted. That's quite amazing when you think about how few restaurants are opened in celebration of movies, which you can probably count on one hand, if you can count any at all.

On a Wednesday, a writer for the website Eater could only acquire a reservation at 11 a.m. Numerous individuals were posing for photos with a life-sized Ted. It belonged to a growing trend known as "collab cafes," which take a concept and run with it, to to the delight of customers who got to enjoy pizza and burgers in the shape of Ted alongside filthy movie quotations plastered on the walls.

Directed by: Seth MacFarlane

Country: United States
Language; English
Budget; $50–65 million
Box office: $615 million

If you ever need evidence that things weren't really better in the past, consider what used to amuse people. The guillotine, which was used to execute thousands of people, was a popular instrument not only for chopping things up at home but also for removing heads in public executions, which were entertaining for the entire family.

Children could play with a home version of the guillotine in the 1790s. Some people thought it was natural and not at all frightening, so they could lop the heads off their dolls or even rats. Additionally, it wasn't just kids having fun. Children could play with a home version of the guillotine in the 1790s.

Some people thought it was natural and not at all frightening, so they could lop the heads off their dolls or even rats. Additionally, it wasn't just kids having fun. Upper class people who wanted a morbid manner to slice up bread and vegetables utilized novelty versions of the instrument. Try to picture yourself preparing grilled cheese in a tiny electric chair in your kitchen right now.

If you play video games at all, you probably already know that there are just as many urban legends about them as there are about other topics. For a long time, there was a widespread misconception that Square Enix, the developer of well-known video games like Final Fantasy, was obliged to only release Dragon Quest on the weekends because it was so well-received that students skipped class to buy it. Is it true, then? Indeed and no.

The tale seems to be excellent PR. We have to release our games on the weekends in order to avoid interfering with schoolchildren's life because they are so well-liked! But the narrative is true; the mythological version only has a slightly different message.

A government order to prohibit selling the game on weekdays was it ever issued by the government? No. However, a request was made. Thursdays used to be the day that video games were released, claims game producer Yuu Miyake. Physical media used to be in high demand and always in short supply. Kids would therefore skip class to try to get a copy. They complied after the police informed them that there was a problem and requested that they take action, choosing instead to release the game on Saturdays going forward.

Developer(s); Chunsoft
Publisher(s): JP: Enix
NA: Nintendo
Director(s): Koichi Nakamura
Producer(s): Yukinobu Chida
Designer(s): Yuji Horii

If you enjoy old Hollywood movies, you probably recognize actress Veronica Lake from movies like The Blue Dahlia and I Married a Witch. Lake was a well-liked femme fatale, and it's possible that her haircut was even more well-liked than she was. It wasn't particularly strange or bizarre, but one side of her long hair did fall over the right side of her face, covering one eye.

The US government forced her to modify her hairstyle since this style was so well-liked that ladies all around the country wore their hair in a similar way. Women at home were employed in the war effort during World War II, but the haircut was viewed as troublesome. It was risky to work in a factory with one eye covered by hair.

It was also a time waster, as a movie created at the time noted. You were wasting time at work if you kept shoving your hair out of the way. According to reports, Lake complied and changed her haircut to the "victory roll," which is said to have had an impact on fewer workplace mishaps.

Born: Constance Frances Marie Ockelman November 14, 1922Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died: July 7, 1973 (aged 50)Burlington, Vermont, U.S.

It's difficult to even compare works as widely read as Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings to the Bible. After all, the book has been around for almost 1500 years. And while Guinness has calculated that at least 5 billion copies have been made, we will never know exactly how many times it has been printed because records like that simply do not exist. Thus, the Bible is undoubtedly the most read book in human history. Surprisingly, The Complete Angler is riding the Bible's coattails.

It was a fishing manual and a sort of thesis on nature and man's role in it, first published in 1653 and last amended in 1676. Only the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and a few plays by Shakespeare have seen more English language editions than it did and continues to receive. 80,000 copies were sold in the 1886 reprint alone. In the 18th century, ten editions were released, and in the 19th, an astounding 117.

Published: 1653

Illustrated by :Arthur Rackham