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The second most popular pizza topping (after pepperoni) in Iowa is corn fritters.

The three islands in the South Pacific that were owned by Marlon Brando went on to form their own nation, Marlonia.

Franklin Pierce was the last President of the United States who spoke no English.

On a telethon broadcast in 1981, Marie Osmond sang "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner once taught a bear how to smoke a pipe.

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In City Hall in Saint Louis, Missouri there is a bronze plaque with the lyrics to J-Kwon's Tipsy.

Due to her bossy nature, author Edith Wharton's nickname was "The Warden".

Feeling drained and wanting to turn to something lighter than his Ninth Symphony (the Ode to Joy), Beethoven planned to write a Tenth Symphony called Ode an die Fläddlesuppe (Ode to Pancake Soup).

The phrase "let's circle back to that" is sourced to Shakespeare and Hamlet's response to the accusations of the ghost of Old Hamlet.

In the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame at Temple University in Philadelphia, an entire wing is devoted to Bill Clinton's phrase "it depends on what your definition of "is" is?"

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Hope is the thing that honours war And sharpens the blade for our enemies It sings of our heroes’ blood Spilled in the name of Kortar - Klingon Emily Dickinson

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The official state song of Missouri is Hanson's Mmmbop.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said his greatest career disappointment was in the lack of interest in his signature cocktail, the Fitztini.

While strolling the grounds of a county fair in Georgia in 1976, Colonel Sanders looked at a chicken and said "It was never personal".

According to City Hall, at least twenty seven percent of weddings in Boston are conducted beside the TD Garden statue of Bobby Orr.

Ronald Reagan left acting for politics after he was bit by Lassie on the set of Lassie and the Dinosaurs.

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Making a mountain from mustard Sweetening the coffee with stones Sculpting Athena in butter Peacefully dreaming of home

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Sir Winston Churchill made the world's first transatlantic prank call.

The soda pop known as Sprite was developed in Germany in 1959 as "GAZ" (which stood for Glückliche Amerikanische Zitrone—the happy American Lemon).

Olivia De Havilland, who died at the age of 104, attributed her longevity to her love of Miami Heat basketball and Miami Heat culture.

The official state flower of Delaware is the purple cabbage.

Sam Elliot talks about Ram Trucks in his sleep.

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Inspired by the success of Foot Loops breakfast cereal, the official state bird of Michigan is the toucan.

People Magazine's first "Sexiest Man Alive" was the A-Team's George Peppard.

King David came up with the phrase "diligent hands will rule" after watching one of his courtiers pick the cashews out of a cocktail mix.

The most recently added element to the periodic table is tampabaysium (113 and denoted as Tb).

Modern Family's Ed O'Neill began his career as a backup singer for the rock band Procol Harum.

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Kurt Cobain wrote the lyrics to the Nirvana classic Scentless Apprentice while having coffee at the Cinnabon in the SeaTac Mall.

The official state song of Maryland is Gitarzan.

Sonia Sotomayor was the first Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to look at a plaintiff and say "Sure, Jan".

Opponents of Brexit thave suggested replacing the English idiomatic phrase "Nice as ninepence" with "Efficacious as Euros".

Virginia Woolf would dress potatoes in doll clothes and give them Irish names.

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Julia Child's favorite breakfast meal was Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics declared Missouri to be America's most "frequently shirtless" state.

George Carlin's dying words were "why is it called pork and beans when there's clearly a lot more beans than pork?"

In Hemingway's planned sequel to The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago's grandson opens a fish cannery in Titusville, Florida.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a pet turtle she named Gomer.

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Humble is a town north of Houston, right by the G.H.W. Bush airport.

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Actors who worked on the set of Air Bud complained about Bud's "shoot first, pass last" mentality.

The official state song of Illinois is Billy, Don't Be a Hero.

Movie critic Pauline Kael's all time favorite film performance was Frank Sinatra's turn in Dirty Dingus Magee.

Keats once wrote an ode to a set of wooden teeth.

While in France, Thomas Jefferson invented a "remoulade espagnol" which would eventually become the basis for Big Mac sauce.

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It once was a given there would be a rack of postcards in every gas station and that every restaurant or motel would have a self-promotional postcard. No more. Not to be all "the internet ruined everything" (Instagram became a more efficient way of delivering postcard messages) but I did love the roadside aesthetic of the classic material.

In Waco for the weekend.

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Lucille Ball was the last celebrity to do TV ads for chewing tobacco ("Beat the blahs / With Yankee Girl Chaw").

Author Christopher Hitchens go-to karaoke song was "You Light Up My Life".

Though associated with Texas, chicken-fried steak is the official steak of Rhode Island.

The Bishop of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas declared to local parishioners that "the consistent inability of the Memphis Grizzly to make the over is a sin".

Reality TV star Jax Taylor petitioned a Los Angeles County court for compensation due to the damages he incurred seeing "unreasonably high" pass votes in an online smash or pass poll.

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One third of the toppings of most “everything" bagels are ground up peanut shells.

The role of Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hanson was written for Jersey Shore’s DJ Pauly D. 

In Vermont, it is considered a serious lapse of manners to eat a pancake with anything but a spoon. 

Ernest Hemingway is the only author to accept the Nobel Prize while shirtless.

In 2003, the I-95 welcome sign to North Carolina read "North Carolina. We think we're a Charlotte but we're totally a Samantha".

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Betsy Ross and Orbit, the Houston Astros mascot, in the making of the first American flag.

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The first E-Z Bake Ovens could cook a full ham dinner. 

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke kept an onion in his pocket that he called "Beauregard".

John Wayne’s gravestone reads “So long, Dillweeds”. 

Unlike her most famous television character, Sarah Jessica Parker owns only four pairs of shoes—all bought at a Payless in the Sawgrass Hills mall in Fort Lauderdale. 

The common phrase "Sorry, not Sorry" made its first appearance in The Book of Mormon.

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In any Starbucks in Belgium, you can get french fries and mussels (moules frites).

For a brief time in 2002, the official state motto of New Hampshire was "Wazzup?"

Due to concerns about Olivia Newton-John's Australian accent, the part of Sandy in the film version of Grease was almost offered to Priscilla Presley.

In market tests conducted in the early 1960s, the Budweiser Clydesdales preferred the taste of Miller Beer.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem (not published in Poe's lifetime) about a severed leg that lives on and kicks men who wear top hats.

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