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[Fresh Tendrils]

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Michael Fassbender (left) and Tom Hardy (right) were extras in Band of Brothers.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Did you know that the TRex and a majority of other dinosaurs almost certainly had feathers since they were direct descendents of birds. Even documentaries on dinosaurs still refuse to show this more realistic look simply because most dinosaurs looked really goofy with feathers and much less intimidating than what people imagined them to be.

[Segagendude]

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Legendary blues man BB King has said he never could master singing and playing guitar at the same time.

Watch any of his performances, and you'll see he's either doing one or the other.

Still a legend, though!

[TripleCrown9]

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Did you know that Glenn Howerton (Dennis from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was the male lead in That 80's Show? And Brittany Daniel (Carmen from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was also in the show? In the picture, Glenn is in the middle and Brittany is to his left. And the girl with the spikey hair is Chyler Leigh, better known as Janey Briggs from Not Another Teen Movie, or Lexie Grey from Grey's Anatomy.

[dingleberryfinn]

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Did you know a pig's orgasm last thirty minutes? I wonder how they found
that out.
*swears off bacon forever more*

[Chaos81]

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Did you know that Glenn Howerton (Dennis from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was the male lead in That 80's Show?

I'm pretty sure you could have left it at, "did you know there was a That 80's Show" and been good to go.

Or maybe not, but I had no idea such a thing existed.

[dingleberryfinn]

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Not very many people know about this one and it's kind of random but here goes: DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Back in 1941 a stockbroker named Morris Newberger and a radio announcer named Alexander Dannenbaum made up a fictional college football team, Plainfield State Teachers College. This was back when schools would telegraph scores in and they sent these scores to the New York Times and the Philadelphia papers, all of them huge victories over schools that also were, of course, non-existant. This went on for 6 weeks, with the two men adding details, such as the Head Coach's inventive "W" Formation and RB Johnny Chung, who's success was attributed to eating rice in between quarters. They were eventually caught by Philadelphia Record reporter Red Smith, actually went to Plainfield, NJ to find the college... which, of course, he didn't. So, Newberger had to write one more press release saying that the school had to cancel the rest of their season as a majority of the players failed exams, etc...

I wonder if this is where Teo's GF went to school.

[TripleCrown9]

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I'm pretty sure you could have left it at, "did you know there was a That 80's Show" and been good to go.

Or maybe not, but I had no idea such a thing existed.

It was so good, they had to stop at 13 episodes. They didn't want to blow any more minds.

[JayBee74]

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Did you know that throughout the run of My Three Sons (1960-1972), Fred MacMurray only worked 65 days per year? His contract stipulated that his scenes be shot first. This meant that most of the time the other actors were working without Fred, even when reacting to his character. When the other cast members were looking up at "Steve Douglas" it was actually a prop girl holding up a mop. The "prop" became known as “Fred MacMop.”

It was one of the best deals in TV history, and to top it off he owned half the show.

[daflyboys]

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^^
That's why he always looked so relaxed!

Here's one I happened upon:

The "Assignment: Earth" episode of "Star Trek" (1966), in which Robert Lansing plays a human raised on a distant planet and sent to Earth as a troubleshooter, was written as the springboard for a spin-off series. The new series was to feature more adventures of Gary Seven (Lansing) and Roberta Lincoln (Teri Garr), but it never came about.

There was always something about his performance that made me think he should have his own show as a lead.

[JayBee74]

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Robert Lansing. I couldn't recall his name if you showed me a picture of him, although he was a great character actor.

I didn't even know he died several years ago.

[daflyboys]

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He seemed cooler than James Coburn. He seemed like he'd be an Elliot Ness type too.

[SPTO]

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So lately i've been reading a blog about 1950s westerns and it got me to wondering just how many westerns were made. I don't know if this is limited to North America or this is worldwide but apparently in the history of cinema (as of 1st Feb 2011) there have been 1258(!) westerns.

Damn, that's a lot and now you know

[JayBee74]

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So lately i've been reading a blog about 1950s westerns and it got me to wondering just how many westerns were made. I don't know if this is limited to North America or this is worldwide but apparently in the history of cinema (as of 1st Feb 2011) there have been 1258(!) westerns.

Damn, that's a lot and now you know

This site states more than 11,000 were made. They even have a Top 500 list that the author claims to have watched 95% of. He contends that they are "interesting, entertaining or in some way provocative or memorable".

WEST TOP 500

[SPTO]

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This site states more than 11,000 were made. They even have a Top 500 list that the author claims to have watched 95% of. He contends that they are "interesting, entertaining or in some way provocative or memorable".

WEST TOP 500

Wow I stand correctd and thanks for that link. As a western movie fan that'll be of great value for me.