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In DeeJay Punk Roc's tune "I Hate Everybody", the samples relating to punk rock causing children to kill are taken from the episode of the TV show Quincy ME called "Next Stop, Nowhere" in Season 8. The repeated refrain "Get a job working for the man, blow his brains out fast as you can, the the cops you didn't like his face, no more garbage like the human race" is Quincy himself, quoting the lyrics of a fake Punk song to Aston.
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Derek O'Dell, who survived the deadliest shooting in the history of North American in Virginia Tech, was given the middle name Jefferson because he was born on Thomas Jefferson's birthday.
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Maureen O'Hara is not telling what she whispered into John Wayne's ear in the movie called "The Quiet Man." The words she whispered supposedly contained scatological terms (that is, dirty language). The lines remain a mystery to this day. John Wayne and John Ford made up lines, but nothing said was true. Nobody knows what she actually said to John Wayne.
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"It's" is not the possessive of it. The apostrophe in it's indicates a missing letter as in isn't, can't etc. The possessive of it is its - without an apostrophe. One of only two words in the English language to which this rule applies!
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Orville Redenbacher's full name is Orville Clarence Redenbacher. He is of German origin.
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The buses used on the British 1970's sitcom "On The Buses" were not Routemasters; in fact they were Bristol Lodekkas. A Routemaster (RM200) did appear in the first movie when Stan was forced to perform a driving test on an LT skidpan. Additionally an RT (RTL 1557) did appear in one episode in which it was destroyed by fire.
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The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom or Ireland and is self governed. It's 1000 year old parliament, the TynWald, is the longest continuously running of any in the world.
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Eugene Warren Biscailuz is of Basque origin. Under his administration, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is the largest (to date) in the world.
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The sitcom "Mary Kay and Johnny" was the first sitcom on US television. Today, only small fragments of later episodes survive.
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Barbers used to dress wounds, as well as shave hair. The origin of the red and white striped pole was a bloody bandage that they wold wrap around the top of a pike stuck into the ground.
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