My Mind Is Truly Blown By These 10 Facts That I Just Learned And That Sound Very Fake But Are Actually 100% Real

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2. Hermès didn't set out to make orange its trademark color — it was more of an accident.

4. HBO has made a huge deal of now having Mad Men on streaming in 4K, but the network not only initially passed on the series, but they also didn't even read the pilot.

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5. Motion smoothing, aka the "soap opera effect," was originally developed for sports broadcasts or live events, not movies.

6. The Black Cauldron is Disney's most infamous production and a low point that nearly killed the animation department.

7. McDonald's added the Filet-O-Fish because they noticed a drop in sales on Fridays in Catholic neighborhoods.

8. Home Alone almost wasn't made because Warner Bros. canceled the production after the film's budget was increased from $10 million to $14 million.

9. The Simpsons' iconic couch gags aren't written alongside the episodes; they are written separately at the start of a season and then used to adjust the length of an episode.

10. And lastly, Stranger Things was rejected 15–20 times by various studios and networks because they didn't understand the concept.

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