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55 unusual facts about Discovery Channel


Abu Dhabi Police

Built by the custom bike specialists Orange County Choppers – featured on the Discovery Channel show "American Chopper" – the bike is used for community projects and awareness raising across the UAE.

AFI Silver

The AFI Silver hosts the annual AFI Docs documentary festival with co-sponsor Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel.

Andrea M. Ghez

The documentaries have been produced by organizations such as BBC, Discovery Channel, and The History Channel; in 2006 there was a presentation on Nova.

Biblical Archaeology Society

At a 2002 press conference co-hosted with the Discovery Channel, the Biblical Archaeology Society announced the existence of the James Ossuary.

Butser Ancient Farm

It was financed with the support of the Discovery Channel, and was filmed for a ten-part series for television.

Ceiling fan

In 2004, the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan is capable of decapitation if an unwary individual was to step headfirst into the path of the blades.

Clash of the Dinosaurs

Clash of the Dinosaurs is a four-part television mini-series produced by Dangerous LTD for Discovery Channel.

Clifton, Cape Town

Clifton was rated as one of the Top Ten Beaches by the cable and satellite television network Discovery Travel Channel in 2003 and 2004 and has received Blue Flag status.

Crab fisheries

Fishing for opilio (and rarely bairdi) crab has been the focus of the second half of all four seasons of Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel.

Dale G. Madison

He was first placed on the main channel following host Mike Rowe (Discovery Channel Dirty Jobs) before transferring to the Fashion Channel.

Epic Brewing Company

Nicholas was then invited by good friend, Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery to brew a beer with him for the Discovery Channel series Brew Masters, where the duo concocted a beer called Portamarillo, brewed with pōhutukawa wood-smoked Tamarillo fruit.

Federation Tower

Another film dedicated to the skyscraper was made by the US TV Discovery Channel in 2009.

Finding the Fallen

Finding the Fallen is a UK-based documentary TV series by Yap Productions developed for the History Channel / Discovery Channel in which a team of archaeologists, historians and forensic experts work to identify unknown World War I soldiers and finally lay them to rest.

Garner Ted Armstrong

He envisioned a television broadcast along the lines of one that was later developed by the Christian Science Church, which created a short-lived nightly news program that was later seen on the Discovery Channel.

Great Blue Hole

In 2012, Discovery Channel ranked the Great Blue Hole as number one on its list of "The 10 Most Amazing Places on Earth".

Green Lake, Wisconsin

These sightings and experiences have been featured in the episode "Legend Trippers" of the Discovery Channel's A Haunting series.

Gynaephora groenlandica

The sequence became part of the BBC's sequel to Planet Earth called Frozen Planet, broadcast on BBC One in Autumn 2011 (with the US broadcast following on Discovery Channel in spring 2012).

Internet Marketing Consultants, Inc.

It also worked with television networks Nickelodeon (TV channel) and Discovery Channel Latin America in launching their online presence.

Jarkov Mammoth

The excavation and ongoing study of the Jarkov Mammoth has been recorded by the Discovery Channel.

JP Aerospace

Since then, JP Aerospace has worked with a number of clients interested in launching cameras into the upper atmosphere via balloons, including The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Toshiba (for their 2009 television commercial Space Chair).

Justo Gallego Martínez

A brief documentary on this work was produced in 2006 by the Latin American version of The Discovery Channel, where Gallego explained his vision.

Kamunyak

Video clips from this film can be accessed on the Discovery Channel website, together with audio interviews with pictures and an extensive discussion.

Kenny Gallo

Gallo also appears on the Discovery Channel show Flipped: A Mobster Tells All Kenny "Kenji" Gallo and Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, where he served as an expert for the Medellin Cartel in "Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel."

Les Droites

The dangers of climbing this face were highlighted on an episode of the Discovery Channel documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive.

Mangde Chhu

A rafting expedition down the river was subject of the 2007 Discovery Channel TV documentary Adventure Bhutan.

Megantereon

Megantereon was depicted in a Discovery Channel TV Series, Before We Ruled the Earth, as a nocturnal hunter that preyed on Homo ergaster.

Merchant Royal

The team continued to search for the ship on the 2009 Discovery Channel television show, Treasure Quest, but were unsuccessful once again.

Mercy Murugi

She has worked with National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, amongst other global production houses and TV channels.

Moffett Federal Airfield

An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one of the smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.

Murillo Flats

The entire event was recorded on 9 cameras by Windfall Films for their Monster Moves show, which is broadcast in the United States on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel (under the names Mega Moves & Impossible Moves).

Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre

Foreign television companies such as the American JWM Productions (Discovery Channel) and NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) have filmed documentaries on mummies in the museum.

Norman Cyril Jackson

Norman Jackson's son appeared in the episode on his father's crew in Lord Ashcroft's documentary series Heroes of the Skies (broadcast on Channel Five on 4 October 2012), as well as the Discovery Channel's Air Aces (premiering October 2013).

OxiClean

Both Billy & Anthony were featured on the show Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel in which the product was featured on multiple occasions.

Ponta da Madeira

In 2012, the train journey from the ore mine to the port was featured in an episode of Countdown to Collision, broadcast by The Discovery Channel.

Rally Fighter

The Rally Fighter was also featured on the Discovery Channel television show Game Changers showing the build process that customers who purchase a Rally Fighter would go through.

Rocky Reach Dam

The Rocky Reach Dam was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, hosted by Mike Rowe.

Rutiodon

Rutiodon is one of the best-known phytosaurs and appeared in the 2001 Discovery Channel documentary When Dinosaurs Roamed America, shown trying to attack a Coelophysis near the water's edge and missing.

Schleese Saddlery

The company illustrated the saddle manufacturing process on Discovery Channel's "How it's Made" (season 6, episode 610).

Shenandoah Plaza National Historic District

An episode of the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters used one these smaller hangars to disprove the myth that it is not possible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times.

Stonecutters Bridge

As a result of the interesting challenges and extreme difficulty in constructing this bridge, the project was featured on two of the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering series on November 1, 2006 and April 27, 2009.

Superior Falls

His efforts were showcased on an August episode of the Discovery Channel's series, Stunt Junkies: Go Big or Go Home, entitled "Kayak Plunge".

Tabango, Leyte

On January 17, 2008, Tabango Mayor Bernard Jonathan Remandaban opened (soft) the almost complete P 5.8 million modern, fully air-conditioned library: “It took us 6 years to construct our municipal library.” The library can accommodate 20,000 books, has 5 computer units with Internet access and a flat television set that only carries the National Geographic and Discovery Channels.

Taiwan Lantern Festival

The American Discovery Channel's program "Fantastic Festivals of the World" has highlighted the Taiwan Lantern Festival as one of the best festivals in the world.

Taningia danae

In 2012, Taningia danae was filmed twice more during a search for the giant squid for the Discovery Channel Special, Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real.

Technology in Star Trek

Discovery Channel Magazine stated that vanishing spaceships, faster-than-light travel and dematerialized transport were only dreams at the time the original series was made, but physicist Michio Kaku believes all these things are possible.

The Holy Infants Embracing

A 2007 special titled "Da Vinci's Lost Code" on the Discovery Channel, featuring an interview with Dutch art dealer who bought it, stated the figure was $1500.

The ITM Fishing Show

The show started as a low budget production in Northland in New Zealand but has now been picked up by the Discovery and Animal Planet channels and will be broadcast in the USA in October 2009.

TI-class supertanker

Hellespont Fairfax was the subject of an episode of The Discovery Channel's television show Superships, episode "Launching a Leviathan–Hellespont Fairfax".

Tim Grundy

He was a fully qualified journalist, whose folksy relaxed style made him a popular television presenter, where he worked predominantly for the Discovery Channel and other satellite broadcasting companies.

Torre Espacio

The building project was featured on the Discovery Channel's Build It Bigger series due to the skyscraper's unique form and shape.

Tulelake, California

A goose and duck processing business and pillow factory in Tulelake was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's series Dirty Jobs.

Wave 102

The Wave 102 brand was born when The Discovery Channel forced it to change the name, claiming that people would mistakenly associate it with the network.

William Bemister

Bemister's other international producer credits include Philby on Thames Television in Britain, Moscow's Man for Sveriges Television, WDR-Fernsehen in Germany, and the Discovery Channel worldwide; and the Home Box Office documentary special America Undercover: The Search for Dr Josef Mengele for which he worked as Producer-Correspondent.

William C. Patrick III

He appeared on all of the major U.S. television networks as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, PBS, the History Channel, The Learning Channel, and the Discovery Channel.

Woodill Wildfire

In September 2012 a Woodill Wildfire was featured on the Discovery Channel TV show Fast N' Loud.


Arlen Ness

The museum displays his famous Untouchable, the twin motor Two Bad, the antique inspired Ness-Tique, Blower Bike, the Italian sports car inspired Ferrari Bike, the '57 Chevy inspired Ness-Stalgia, the Bugatti-like Smooth-Ness, the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off bike Top Banana, and his jet-powered Mach Ness.

Charles R. Pellegrino

One of his recent books (co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici) is The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (2007), a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron.

Claw of Archimedes

The plausibility of this invention was tested in 1999 in the BBC series Secrets of the Ancients and again in early 2005 in the Discovery Channel series Superweapons of the Ancient World.

Dan Danknick

Danknick appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel show Monster Garage, where he and the other builders were tasked with transforming a Suzuki Samurai into a hot air balloon.

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

Zobel has been a consistent top performer in academic contests such the Metrobank-Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines-Department of Education Math Challenge, the Discovery Channel Whiz Quiz Contest, numerous AMA Computer University Information Technology Contests, and the Inter-school Computer Science QuizBits Contest of the Philippine Science High School, among others.

Eddie Benitez

One of Benitez's claimed paranormal events was documented and recreated for the Discovery Channel series A Haunting – "Casa de los Muertos", which also featured his music, past and present.

Edge West Productions

For more than a decade, Day has been an active producing partner with National Geographic Channel, Public Broadcast Service, Discovery, The History Channel, TLC, BBC Television, Channel Four (TV UK), and NHK Japan.

Elizabeth B. Jenkins

In May 2010, Elizabeth served as technical advisor and guide to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL's Les Stroud Beyond Survival into the Andean mountains to join the Q'ero Indians on their yearly pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit'i.

How to Survive

How to Survive is a survival skills reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel and features Les Stroud explaining different situations and how to survive them.

Jamy Ian Swiss

He also served as head writer and associate director for The Virtual Magician starring Marco Tempest, which aired in 45 countries; created, produced and performed in the Discovery Channel documentary, Cracking the Con Games; and has consulted on feature films including The Fantasticks.

Joel Geist

He is known for his performances on television, ranging from Doug in NBC's short-lived drama Windfall, to his portrayal of real life, former prison inmate Alan Beaman, later exonerated after being found to be innocent, in the Discovery Channel's docu-drama Guilty or Innocent.

Martin Buser

Buser and his Happy Trails Kennels were featured on an episode (premiering April 12, 2009) of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs program as well as on the sixth episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Nathan Adrian

Adrian appeared in episode 5 of the 2009 season of the Discovery Channel series, MythBusters, to assist hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in testing the myth that it is possible to swim as fast in syrup as in water.

Nemo Gould

His work has been featured frequently in national media including the Discovery Channel, Wired Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Make Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Net gun

In "Birds in a Truck", an episode of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman constructs a jury-rigged net gun using PVC, an air tank, a fishing net, and some tennis balls in an attempt to capture pigeons.

Nick Cook

He also appeared on the Discovery Channel's Unsolved History series episode Area 51 that aired in February 2005.

Reverend Gadget

He is best known to television audiences as part of the build team on the short-lived Discovery Channel series Big!, and has more recently been part of their other series Monster House and Smash Lab.

Roland Sands

In 2005, after the tremendous success Sands found on Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off vs. Arlen Ness, Sands founded Roland Sands Design.

Ron Magill

He has also appeared on several documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel, and, during the 1980s, handled all the animals used on the Miami Vice television series.

Ronald Dale Harris

Harris’ story can be seen on the Bio Channel, History Channel and Discovery Channel program Breaking Vegas, which features interviews and reenactments of some of Harris’ memorable moments in his casino-breaking scheme.

Rüdiger Gamm

Featured on the Discovery Channel program The Real Superhumans, he was examined by Allan Snyder, an expert on savants, who concluded that Gamm's ability was not a result of savant syndrome but connected to genetics.

Santiago Botero

In October 2004 he joined Phonak, together with Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero from Saunier Duval, and Víctor Hugo Peña and Floyd Landis from Discovery Channel-Berry Floor.

Susan Rae

She has done voice-overs for many Discovery Channel shows including Forensic Detectives, some episodes of The FBI Files and Street Crime UK for Bravo.

Telebrands

The company and its CEO, AJ Khubani were featured in many episodes of the Discovery Channel TV series PitchMen.

Tory Belleci

Tory Belleci; a filmmaker and model maker, is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.

We Care a Lot

"We Care a Lot" is also used as the theme song for the Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs, hosted by Mike Rowe.