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It's not Christmas Eve in Sweden without a visit from Donald Duck

Don’t even think about calling your Swedish friend between 3-5pm on Christmas Eve, because like most of the country they’ll be watching Donald Duck cartoons. In 1959 at 3pm, TV station TV1 showed the Disney special “From All of Us to All of You” or, “Kalle Anka och hans vanner onskar God Jul” (“Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas”), and the station has been repeating the show each year since.

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Have y'all seen Sarah Connor?

As a native German speaker, it's natural that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to lend his voice to the German language version of The Terminator. However, the studio refused. Germans and Austrians consider Arnold's native accent very ‘rural’. So it'd be difficult to suspend disbelief to hear an all-powerful death machine from the future who sounds like a hillbilly.

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Trapped... in your own reality show

Psychological delusions are scary for their sufferers, but life can be a nightmare for sufferers of the Truman Show delusion. Named for the 1998 movie, sufferers believe their lives are staged reality shows, or that they are being watched on cameras. One sufferer travelled to NYC after 9/11 to see whether it was real or just a staged plot twist in his reality show.

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