Doc Brown and his Chimp Sidekick
In the early outlines of Back to the Future, Doc Brown had a chimp sidekick named Shemp. Thank goodness someone knicked that idea.
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Random 80s Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know
The More You Know
- The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
- There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
- There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
- A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.