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In reply to the discussion: Post a true but little known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- Part 10 [View all]red dog 1
(27,837 posts)39. That's very interesting
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Post a true but little known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- Part 10 [View all]
red dog 1
Mar 2020
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John Wayne got the nickname "Duke" from when he was a little kid walking to school.
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Mar 2020
#5
Grateful Dead co-founder Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was the band's original front man,
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Mar 2020
#7
Bobby Darin was a member of the Brill Building gang of struggling songwriters.
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Apr 2020
#10
Harlan Ellison once had a job driving a nitroglycerine truck in North Carolina
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Apr 2020
#13
Patti Smith once danced off a high stage in Tampa, Fla. & fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit
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Apr 2020
#14
After getting out of the US Army, John Prine moved to Chicago & became a mailman,
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Apr 2020
#15
Roger Ebert was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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Apr 2020
#16
Does anyone else care to "post a true but little known fact about someone famous"?
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Apr 2020
#20
Joe Biden was a standout halfback and wide receiver on his high school football team.
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Apr 2020
#31
Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way" set a record for length of time on the U.K.'s top 40
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Apr 2020
#34
The Peter Gold hit song "Never Let Her Slip Away" was about comedian Laraine Newman (SNL)
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Apr 2020
#35
Major League Baseball retired number 42 for all major league teams in honor of
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Apr 2020
#36
Quentin Tarantino's very first job was as an usher at an adult movie theater in Torrance, CA.
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Apr 2020
#37
He would have defeated George Bush in 2004 were it not for GOP dis-info "Swift-Boat" lies.
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Jun 2020
#55
Some weeks before murdering John Lennon, Mark David Chapman told his wife that he had been
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May 2020
#40
Andrew Strong, who played Deco Cuffe in "The Commitments," went on to tour with musicians like
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May 2020
#41
When he was just starting out in Deuuth, Minnesota, Bob Dylan was notorious for stealing
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May 2020
#42
Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia about antique furniture and certain types of silverware
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May 2020
#47
Patti Smith once danced off a high stage in Tampa, Fla. & fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit
red dog 1
Jun 2020
#48
Former boxing champion Michael Moorer was the colorful Hobo Bird in my 1st grade spring concert.
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Jun 2020
#51
A short time before his death, Jimi Hendrix was heading out of a music hall up some steps
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#53
When he was very young, Jimi Hendrix carried around a broom wherever he went, even
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#60
After Jim Morrison died in 1971, "The Doors" continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973.
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#61
Paul Robeson was an All-American college football player in both his junior and senior years
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#65
Jay Leno has Mandibular Prognathism, which is the reason for his prominent jaw.
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#66
Unlike Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor was a highly educated and cultured man, and taught
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#67
Tony Dow, who played Wally on "Leave It To Beaver," had no acting aspirations when he
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#70
Elvis Presley had singer Jackie Wilson moved from a substandard convalescent home to
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#73
Keith Richards got his first guitar from his maternal grandfather, Gus Dupree, who toured Britain
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#76
In their early days, Keith Richards & Mick Jagger did mostly old blues songs and didn't write their
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#78
In 1975, lead vocalist Nick Gelder left the Canadian pub band, "Sweeney Todd" to start a solo career
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#81
Harry Truman is the only president since William McKinley who did not earn a college degree.
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Jul 2020
#83
Thomas Edison did not electrocute an elephant to "prove" the dangers of AC current
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Jul 2020
#86
I wonder what exactly happened when she "killed a spectator" while she was in the circus.
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Jul 2020
#90
Donald Sinclair, who was the inspiration for the John Cleese character, Basil Fawlty, was a
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#91
After forming a band in high school, Bob Dylan's group performed "Rock & Roll is Here to Stay"
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#92
In 1993, each member of the Monty Python troupe had an asteroid named after them
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Jul 2020
#96
Besides being an actor, Robert Mitchum was also a director, author, poet, composer and singer.
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#97
Unlike what was portrayed in "Walk the Line," Johnny Cash was in no way responsible for his older
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Jul 2020
#100
In 2016, Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Katherine Clark began a sit-in demanding House Speaker
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#102
One time, Bob Dylan waited until some friends were away, then went over to their house and
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