Nathanael West’s 1939 novel The Day of the Locust features a character called "Homer Simpson"; it doesn’t appear to have a connection to Matt Groening naming his character, but rather a strange coincidence.
Ray Bradbury was a descendant of Mary Perkins Bradbury, one of the Salem witches; she was sentenced to be hanged in 1692 but managed to escape.
Sting wrote the song Every Breath You Take at the same desk which Ian Fleming used to write his James Bond novels.
In Russia in 2009 Winnie-the-Pooh was banned because a senior official was found to own a picture of Pooh wearing swastika-covered clothes.
The earliest recorded use of “wicked” to mean “cool, good” is from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise.
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