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Actress Mary Pickford was known as America’s Sweetheart, Shirley Temple was America’s Darling.

Homer Simpson from the cartoon ditcom The Simpsons, in addition to his main job as safety inspector for the nuclear power plant, has also had a wide variety of jobs across the series, with series creator Matt Groaning saying that Homer has had an estimate of 188 jobs across the shows first 400 episodes, while by the current day it’s estimated to be around 275 jobs.

This list includes, amongst other jobs:
-Astronaut
-Professional boxer
-Clown
-Food critic
-Porn star
-Mayor
-Bodyguard for the Mayor
-Actor
-Voice actor
-Stuntman
-Union leader
-Trucker
-Mascot
-Store clerk
-Farmer
-Vigilante
-Head of neighbourhood watch
-Singer/Musician
-Bartender
-Bounty hunter
-Security guard
-Door to door salesman
-Priest
-Missionary
-and the Grim Reaper

There are more possible variations of chess moves than there are atoms in the observable universe.

4 stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame are misspelled: Lotte Lehmann (Lottie), Merian C. Cooper (Meriam), Auguste Lumiere (August) and Mary Livingstone (Livingston)

Ever wonder why Homer Simpson’s hair and ear looks kinda like the letters M and G? Those are Matt Groening’s initials.

“Human Zoos” where human exhibitions made by Western/European colonisers, that involved stealing natives from African nations (though some would expand this further to include other minorities groups like Inuit’s or Nubians) and taking them back to their home countries, and parading them around like zoo animals in order to show off how “savage” the Africans were and how they needed “The civilised White man” to “help” them.

They where kept in cages in the zoo and were not allowed to leave, and mainly fed by visitors throwing food into their dens.

The last known human zoo was the 1958 Belgium World Fair, where a Congolese village was put on display. The Congolese people objected to being treated like animals and demanded they be returned home back to the Congo, which earned sympathy from the press, and following the rise of the Civil Rights movements across the Western world, helped put an end to human zoos.

Most sex toys are colored purple, as it’s considered a “neutral” color that doesn’t associate with either gender (Pink for women and blue for boys)

the resoan eggplants are called that is they look like eggs when growing

The first ever original programming from Cartoon Network was “The Moxy Show”. A series of interstitials featuring an anthropomorphic dog and his cricket companion animated in motion capture, they would commentate on Hanna-Barbera shorts that would play in-between the program. Running from 1993 to 1995, the series is seldom remembered by the network despite its importance to the channel’s history and a lot of its episodes are considered lost to this day.

76% of Nevada’s land is owned by the Federal Government, the most of any state.
Utah comes close, with 70%, and Idaho at 60%.

The Cape of Good Hope near Cape Town, South Africa, is erroneously believed to be the site where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, but the actual location is further east in Cape Agulhas.

Contrary to popular belief, urinating on a jellyfish sting/wound does not actually help with healing it, and instead makes it worse

@Mr.Myoozik
Bro in the same shoulders as Hershey and MacFarlane for dodging death.

Big Bird was originally going to go to space in 1986 as part of a publicity stunt, but the idea was scrapped as the costume was too big to fit inside the cabin of the rocket so a schoolteacher was instead put in their place. That rocket? The Challenger space shuttle that exploded after takeoff.

This is how the Big Bird costume from Sesame Street is operated

@Mr.Myoozik
Dexter Holland of The Offspring has a PhD in molecular biology.

Brian May of Queen has a PhD in astrophysics

@Silent_Witness
Dark5 made a video about people who’ve never been identified and one of them was the Leatherman. I theorize that he was a guy who wanted to escape modern civilization and live on his own.

@yelling_into_the_void
Leland Sklar is and will always be a bass guitar genius!

The Leatherman was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River from roughly 1857 until his death in 1889. Thought to be French-Canadian because of his fluency in the French language and the French-language prayer book found on his person after his death, his actual origins and identity are unknown. However, contrary to popular belief, he is not the origin of the name of the Leatherman tool company.

On August 6th, 2013, 4Chan’s /b/ board infiltrated the tech conference Agile Alliance by taking over the company’s Twitter feed by posting offensive posts and images via the display boards placed around the conference center.

Even though Coca-Cola has been cocaine free since the 1920’s, coca leaf extract is still used in the soft drink today.

Sweet Tarts sold $34.3 million in sales last year.