BuzzFeed put together a list of random pop culture facts from the ‘90s you might not know. Here are my favorite highlights:
1. The Tickle Me Elmo toy was almost Tickle Me Taz - you know, the Tasmanian Devil from “Looney Tunes”. The company that made it didn’t initially have the rights to use Elmo, but they eventually got them.
2. Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis used their own money to shoot two scenes in “Forrest Gump” because Paramount refused to increase the budget. One of the scenes was Forrest running across the country.
3. Steve Jobs wanted the iMac to be called “MacMan”.
4. RuPaul had an unexpected friendship with Nirvana. They met at the 1993 MTV “VMAs”.
5. George Lucas asked Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Robert Zemeckis to direct “Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace”. They all said no because they felt Lucas needed to do it.