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- Inspired by the success of Foot Loops breakfast cereal, the official state bird of Michigan is the toucan.
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- King David came up with the phrase “diligent hands will rule” after watching one of his courtiers pick the cashews out of a cocktail mix.
- The most recently added element to the periodic table is tampabaysium (113 and denoted as Tb).
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- Kurt Cobain wrote the lyrics to the Nirvana classic Scentless Apprentice while having coffee at the Cinnabon in the SeaTac Mall.
- The official state song of Maryland is Gitarzan.
- Sonia Sotomayor was the first Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to look at a plaintiff and say “Sure, Jan”.
- Opponents of Brexit thave suggested replacing the English idiomatic phrase “Nice as ninepence” with “Efficacious as Euros”.
- Virginia Woolf would dress potatoes in doll clothes and give them Irish names.
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- Julia Child’s favorite breakfast meal was Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts.
- The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics declared Missouri to be America’s most “frequently shirtless” state.
- George Carlin’s dying words were “why is it called pork and beans when there’s clearly a lot more beans than pork?”
- In Hemingway’s planned sequel to The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago’s grandson opens a fish cannery in Titusville, Florida.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a pet turtle she named Gomer.
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- Actors who worked on the set of Air Bud complained about Bud’s “shoot first, pass last” mentality.
- The official state song of Illinois is Billy, Don’t Be a Hero.
- Movie critic Pauline Kael’s all time favorite film performance was Frank Sinatra’s turn in Dirty Dingus Magee.
- Keats once wrote an ode to a set of wooden teeth.
- While in France, Thomas Jefferson invented a “remoulade espagnol” which would eventually become the basis for Big Mac sauce.
A soothsayer in the streets of Rome tells Frankenberry to beware the Ides of March.
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
It once was a given there would be a rack of postcards in every gas station and that every restaurant or motel would have a self-promotional postcard. No more. Not to be all “the internet ruined everything” (Instagram became a more efficient way of delivering postcard messages) but I did love the roadside aesthetic of the classic material.
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- Dunkin Donuts purchased the rights to the song Me and Bobby McGee to advertise their fall flavors and came up with the theme Good enough for Dunkin / and Bobby McPumpkin.
- Michael Jordan once bet four and a half million dollars on what he thought would be the opening song at a 1992 Mandy Moore concert.
- Known to the press as “The Iron Lady”, Margaret Thatcher was known to her friends as “Punchbowl Peggy”.
- George Eliot planned on writing a sequel called The Tobacconist on the Tay.
- A Swiss delegate to the United Nations once asked the General Assembly “after all we did for chocolate and cheese, why did you stick us with Swiss chard?”
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- In any Starbucks in Belgium, you can get french fries and mussels (moules frites).
- For a brief time in 2002, the official state motto of New Hampshire was “Wazzup?”
- Due to concerns about Olivia Newton-John’s Australian accent, the part of Sandy in the film version of Grease was almost offered to Priscilla Presley.
- In market tests conducted in the early 1960s, the Budweiser Clydesdales preferred the taste of Miller Beer.
- Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem (not published in Poe’s lifetime) about a severed leg that lives on and kicks men who wear top hats.
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Lucille Ball was the last celebrity to do TV ads for chewing tobacco (“Beat the blahs / With Yankee Girl Chaw”).
Author Christopher Hitchens go-to karaoke song was “You Light Up My Life”.
Though associated with Texas, chicken-fried steak is the official steak of Rhode Island.
The Bishop of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas declared to local parishioners that “the consistent inability of the Memphis Grizzly to make the over is a sin”.
Reality TV star Jax Taylor petitioned a Los Angeles County court for compensation due to the damages he incurred seeing “unreasonably high” pass votes in an online smash or pass poll.