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unusual facts about The Discovery Channel



John Varty

-- Be careful not to call it a conservation project --> In 2003, the progress was documented in a The Discovery Channel production called Living with Tigers.

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.

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.

Ron Pompei

Well known for its innovative approach towards retail design, the firm has collaborated with a wide spectrum of clients including Anthropologie, California Academy of Sciences, Coca-Cola, Fortune, Harley-Davidson, Herman Miller, Kiehl's Since 1851, Kmart, Levi's, MTV, Old Navy, Rubin Museum of Art, Sony, Té Casan, The Discovery Channel, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and Urban Outfitters.

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".

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.

Your Worst Animal Nightmares

Your Worst Animal Nightmares is a 2009 television show made by John Stainton broadcast by Animal Planet for The Discovery Channel.


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2008 USA Cycling Professional Tour

Levi Leipheimer (381 points) and the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (810 points) are the defending champion of the overall individual and team titles, respectively.

Charles Denham

He has collaborated with movie actor Dennis Quaid to accelerate the adoption of safety solutions such as bar-code technologies, and has produced the documentaries Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm and Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami: Bring Your Best Board, both aired on the Discovery Channel.

CheyTac Intervention

On the Discovery Channel TV show Future Weapons April 9, 2007 episode "Massive Attack" the host Richard Machowicz, a former United States Navy SEAL, made 3 out of 6 shots, hitting a human-sized sheet of metal at a distance of 2,530 yards (2,313 m) at Arco Pass in Idaho.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

It has been the subject of TV programs on the BBC, the National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, and of numerous articles in magazines such as New Scientist, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.

Gary Motykie

Entertainment’s series Dr. 90210, the Discovery Channel’s Plastic Surgery: Before & After, VH1 and MTV True Lives.

GH episodes

Episodes of Ghosthunters, a British documentary series ran on the Discovery Channel from 1996 to 1997

Lee Barden

Barden has been featured on numerous national television programs including the Discovery channel's Impact:Stories of Survival, The Maury Povich Show, You Gotta See This, I'm Still Alive!, World's Most Amazing Videos, and Now See This.

Lemp Mansion

In 2009, the mansion was investigated by the Discovery Channel program Ghost Lab during its December 29 episode entitled "If Walls Could Talk".

Meyer Sound Laboratories

Meyer Sound Laboratories has participated and been featured in several episodes of the Discovery Channel series “MythBusters” involving sound.

Phurba Tashi

In the first season of the Discovery Channel series, he was shown carrying double-amputee Mark Inglis down a portion of the lower descent on his back.

Richard D. Hansen

Hansen worked as a historical consultant on the 2006 Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, and has appeared in 25 film documentaries including several National Geographic specials, the Discovery Channel, CNN, CNN International, Koch Television, British Broadcasting Corp, Sixty Minutes Australia, CBS, History Channel, ABC 20/20, ABC Primetime Live, ABC Good Morning America, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, TimeLine Films of London,Guatevision, and the Learning Channel.

Sons of Guns

As on the Discovery Channel series MythBusters, this show practices a degree of self-censorship and safety-consciousness.