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« Reply #1815 on: January 17, 2021, 02:13:02 PM »

The book The Detective was made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra.  
The book had a sequel called Nothing Lasts Forever.    That book was later adapted into a movie you may have heard of (especially around Christmas)  Die Hard.  
Due to contracts when the movie Die hard was being made, they legally had to offer the role to Sinatra first, even though he was ... pretty old at the time.  

the next THREE Die Hard movies weren't written as sequels to Die Hard at all.  

A book called 58 Minutes became Die hard 2.
A screenplay written as Simon Says was eventually made as Die Hard witha Vengeance (although the script was almost bought and made as Lethal Weapon 4 first).
Another screen play called WW3.com was chosen to be made into Live Free or Die Hard.  

A Good Day to Die Hard was the very first Die Hard movie to actually be written as a Die Hard movie.  

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« Reply #1816 on: January 28, 2021, 03:44:34 AM »

Up until the 1980s a popular thing to do in Germany was putting a crochet "hat" over a roll of toiletpaper, proudly put on display in the rear of the car

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« Reply #1817 on: January 28, 2021, 07:29:32 PM »

Red dyes were so expensive in Viking-age Scandinavia that those seen wearing red clothes were assumed to be nobles.
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« Reply #1818 on: January 28, 2021, 08:19:44 PM »

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South Dakota will let you keep a bear on your property, but domestic pigs are prohibited.

Wha?  Question Buggedout

Source: https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/exotic-animal-laws-by-state.html

It's a misprint on findlaw. It should read "non-domestic [i.e. wild] pigs." (Look at the grid below the article). Good catch on your part.
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« Reply #1819 on: January 28, 2021, 09:44:26 PM »

Between 1986 & 2006 Tokyo Disneyland had a walk through attraction based, in part, on the Black Cauldron. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Cinderella_Castle_Mystery_Tour
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« Reply #1820 on: January 29, 2021, 12:10:22 PM »

Oscar Levant knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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« Reply #1821 on: March 09, 2021, 07:21:48 PM »

There are no drums on the first 50 seconds of "Hey Jude" because Ringo was late coming back from a visit to the bathroom.
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« Reply #1822 on: March 12, 2021, 12:10:56 AM »

I am no longer mad at my husband, so I am going to bed. Fare-thee-well, one and all. Even you.
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« Reply #1823 on: March 12, 2021, 02:12:22 PM »

When I drink red or grape pop, my poop is bright green.
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« Reply #1824 on: March 13, 2021, 01:28:01 PM »

I just read that an NPR station I sometimes listen to is doing a radio performance of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar Sunday, and that the actor who is playing Julius Caesar is named-----wait for it------Marcus Anthony!
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« Reply #1825 on: March 30, 2021, 04:32:20 PM »

Forty years ago today, Reagan got shot....

Twenty-two years ago today, Fabio collided with a goose.....
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« Reply #1826 on: March 30, 2021, 09:48:04 PM »

The role of Dracula in The Monster Squad almost went to Liam Neeson.
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« Reply #1827 on: June 26, 2021, 08:39:07 PM »

According to a recent study, since 9/11, four times as many members of the military have died from suicide as were killed during actual operations.
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« Reply #1828 on: June 27, 2021, 12:36:38 AM »

The first "phone book" was printed in in New Haven, Connecticut two years after the phone was invented.  It was a single sheet of cardboard with the names of 50 business and people that had phones.  It had no actual phone numbers listed on it. 
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« Reply #1829 on: July 07, 2021, 11:17:01 PM »

Netflix was originally a DVD by mail service (anyone else remember that?) and the first EVER DVD they sent out was Beetlejuice. 
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