The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a ballooon for a parade

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In an episode of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob's Criminal Number is 24601, the same as the Criminal number of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

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The hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.


Hmmm . . . We should hate them for that..

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Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Joise in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."

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School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.

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Most of the little school houses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.

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Some 16,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks since the company started the practice in 1912.

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On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.

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If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golfball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.

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In Psycho, the color of Mrs. Bates' dress was periwinkle blue.

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The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was Rock the Casba by the Clash.

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Sam Spade's license number was 137596.

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The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

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Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.

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Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.