Post a trivial fact about a celebrity, living or dead.

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Martha Stewart loves animals.

She has Chow Chow dogs, French Bulldogs, Himalayan cats, a fell Pony, and Friesian horses.

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1. I lived in a place back in 1978 - on Saco Bay, ME - that Bette Davis and Gary Merrill lived in.

Big home on the shoreline - converted to a duplex. Kinda weird in that it had the worst wallpaper that you could imagine. Tastes were different in the 50s.

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2. bob bell, the original bozo-

hung out at a nudist camp full of swingers.
just over the border in indiana.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Ali McGraw knits and buys yarn

in local yarn shops in Santa Fe.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Bob Dylan is a metal sculptor

Gates are his speciality

"Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference." — Bob Dylan

[Baggies]

5. Randolph Scott's face reportedly was used as the model for the Oakland Raiders logo in 1960.

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6. John Wayne was afraid of horses

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7. Alan Ladd was 5'7" tall and

because he was shorter than many of his co-stars, including leading ladies, his scenes were often shot with him on horseback or standing on a box.

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17. Same with Bogart,

Ingrid Bergman was 3-4 inches taller.

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20. Cool

I had no idea. Shorter men were always ok with me. Why is it a thing for men to be taller than women?

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21. I'm 5'11"

I once asked a woman out who was about 6'1". She turned me down, said I was too short.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Chuck Norris' real first name is Carlos.

If you have the balls to call him that to his face, he will rip your larynx out with his left foot and show it to you while you die.

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9. Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.

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10. Chuck Norris can dribble a bowling ball.

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12. Chuck Norris is so fast he can run around the Earth and hit himself in the back of the head.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Major Flaw With That

Nobody, not even Chuck Norris can hit Chuck Norris in the back of the head. It's impossible!

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11. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was not a strict vegetarian and would eat fish or other meat to be polite if a dinner host served it, but he himself called meat "unclean" and "filthy."

I wonder if, because he cared about the welfare of animals and wrote about seeing dirty barns and other dirty enclosures for animals, he was referring to that and to the conditions by which meat was prepared, and not to animal flesh itself being unclean.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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13. John Punch, the 1st African slave documented by name

Is Barack Obama's 11th great grandfather by DNA analysis. Ralph Bunche was also a descendant. Also when Don Drysdale was pitching for Van Nueys High School his 1st baseman was Robert Redford.

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24. Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter are both descended from Moses Teague, a NC slaveowner

I discovered this fact during ancestry research for my spouse who is also a Moses Teague descendant and 5th cousin of Barack Obama.

[First Speaker]

14. Both Bobby Darin and Jack Nicholson's real mothers were their "sisters"...

...and they didn't know it until they were adults...

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23. Eric Clapton too

Liv Tyler thought Todd Rundgren was her biological father until she was 15.

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15. Lucy Ball financed and decided to televise the famous original series..."Star Trek"

[Stuart G]

16. Only one of the original "HONEYMOONERS CAST" took a cut of the profits, instead of a weekly pay!

It was Joyce Randolph, the lady who played Art Carney's wife....(She became a millionaire because of that decision,
unlike the other cast members)

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30. Good one!

(I never knew that)

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18. Ulysses S Grant

Once owned a slave.

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19. Tim Matheson

was the voice of Jonny Quest.

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22. "Celebrity" race horse Seabiscuit failed to win any of the first 17 races he was in.

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25. Actor William Ostrander

In 2016, ran as a Democratic candidate for the 24th California Congressional District. He was seeking to replace retiring nine-term US Representative Lois Capps, with a focus on campaign reform. He didn't win the election.


Here's a photo of him from the 1983 movie Christine.

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26. The Smothers Brothers' father died in Japanese captivity, during WWII.

He was a U.S. Army officer.

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28. River Phoenix

auditioned for Paul, the younger brother in A River Runs Though It.

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29. In 1965, John Belushi formed a band with 4 fellow high school students

It was called "The Ravens" and they recorded one single, which was not successful.

Belushi played drums.

[First Speaker]

31. The actor Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes, saved the life of Abe Lincoln's son...

...Robert, when the latter almost fell in front of a train.

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34. Good one!

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32. The Grapes of Wrath

had a pivotal character: Jim Casy. Casy was based on John Steinbecks longtime friend Ed Ricketts. Ricketts was a marine biologist, early ecologist, philosopher and somewhat of a mystic.

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35. I used to work with a guy who named his dog Ricketts.

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33. Not really a "celebrity" but Fredric Baur, who founded "Pringles" was buried in a

Pringles can.