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  1. w. bogart

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    Fun fact, a doctor interviewed about a rise in scurvey cases among New Yorks homeless population stated there was enough vitamin C in a single packet of ketchup, to prevent the disease if taken weekly.
     
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    Louanne Learning Happy Wonderer Contributor

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    The popsicle was patented in 1923.
     
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    Vince Higgins Curmudgeon. Contributor

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    The actor Ted Cassidy played two roles in the TV show The Addams Family. Lurch, and his hand played Thing.
     
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    I just learned this recently myself. They had the tallest, most massive dude crouching and hiding in these tiny spaces so that his arm could play Thing. Seems cruel! I'd love to know the story behind it. Did he actually want to play Thing as well? Did he enjoy it? Or was it cause of some weird clause in his contract?
     
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    Next time you get a free ticket to Fenway and need someone to go, lemme know. Give me 17 hour advance notice because of the drive, but I'm there. ;)
     
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    Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee:

    'Only 2 Cars In Line At McDonald’s? This Won’t Take Long!' Says Dumbest Man Alive
     
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    Errol Flynn was 28 years old when he played Robin Hood in 1938. The sound of Robin’s arrow is the favorite sound of Skywalker Sound’s Ben Burtt. He has used that sound in almost all the Star Wars films.

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  8. Vince Higgins

    Vince Higgins Curmudgeon. Contributor

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    Errol Flynn was a Tasmanian.
     
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    A toilet was shown for the first time on TV on a 1957 episode of Leave It To Beaver.

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    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Mother of God! Next thing you know, Ozzie and Harriet will be sharing a bed!
     
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    Only because they were married in real life!
     
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    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    That never stopped Harriet before.
     
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    And then there's the navels on Star Trek. Scandalous!

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    The devil you say.
     
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    Vince Higgins Curmudgeon. Contributor

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    It was meant as a straight line, so yes.
     
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    "Tasmanian" "devil"...

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    The Russian aircraft maker MiG (МиГ) is spelled the way it is because it is an acronym for its two principal designers, Mikoyan and Gurevich. (и, pronounced ee, is Russian for and)
     

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