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Jack Black in 1992 at age 23.

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On Black Friday 2008, 34 yr old Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, was asked by his employer to use his 6’5 body as a barrier for a crowd of over 2,000 people. He died that day after being trampled by the crowd. The shoppers did not concerned about his death, and even complained of waiting too long.

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First time Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis sharing a moment together after winning.

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Jim Parsons excitedly standing next to a poster for TBBT sometime before the release of season one.

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With over 8 million vinyl records, Brazilian businessman Jose Roberto Zero Alves Freitas is said to have the largest record collection in existence.

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This is the tomb in New Orleans where Nicolas Cage will be put to rest after he dies.

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The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients stand on everybody's shelf”.

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This is the team that developed the very first GTA game in 1997.

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70 years ago today, the United States learned about Stalin’s death for the first time when a 21 year old Air Force Staff Sergeant intercepted a coded message from Russia. That sergeant was none other than legendary signer/songwriter - Johnny Cash.

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The “Dancing Mania Plague” was a social phenomenon during the medieval times which caused more than thousands of people to dance erratically, until they collapsed from exhaustion or died. It was widespread in many countries throughout Europe, and the true cause still hasn’t been identified.

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This poem that Leonard Cohen wrote about Kayne West in 2015.

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With Sister Andre dying this week at 118 years old, Maria Branyas has become the world’s oldest verified living person at 115 years old (born 1907). Here she is at age 15 in 1922, alongside what she looks like now.

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In 1981, a German tenant was evicted without notice after he spread surstromming brine in his apartment stairwell. After being taken to court, the judge ruled that the termination was justified after the landlord’s party opened a can of surstromming in the courtroom.

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This is the 80-foot Norway Spruce tree that has been chosen as this year’s Rockefeller Christmas Tree. Located in the backyard of a house in Binghamton, NY, the tree will be cut down on November 9th and then escorted to Manhattan.

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Thomas Stolz Harvey, the man who performed Albert Einstein’s autopsy in 1955, and later stole his brain, is seen holding Einstein’s brain in a jar in this photo. After performing the autopsy, Dr.Harvey diced Einstein’s brain into 170 pieces, and retained some for himself - without anyone knowing.

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This is Donna Halper - the American DJ who discovered the band Rush in 1974 and introduced their iconic music to the US. As of 2024, she’s 77 and still friends with the band. Photo from 1968.

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The three band members of The Police, who all have naturally dark brown hair, were given the opportunity in 1978 to star in a Wrigley’s Gum commercial, but were asked to dye their hair blond to look more punk rock. They all obliged, liked the blond hair, and made it their signature look.

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In the 19th century, Hungarian composer Franz Liszt was the subject of intense fan frenzy directed towards him during his performances. Women would tear bits of his clothing, fight over his broken piano strings and locks of his long hair, and some fans would even throw their underwear at him.

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8 year difference, 1960 to 1968.

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What would it be called and what would it be about?

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In 1967, Jim Morrison was maced by a cop for making out with a fan backstage. When the show started, he called the cop a little blue man in a little blue hat in an arena of thousands of people. Morrison then became the first ever rockstar to be arrested on-stage, which caused a riot.

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The legendary James Hong turns 95 today! Here he is in 1959 and in 2023.

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This is a real skyscraper located in New York City. Located at 33 Thomas street. The architects dubbed it “Project X” and can withstand an atomic blast, housing enough water, food and generator fuel for 1.5K people to survive at least two weeks during catastrophic nuclear fallout.

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Carlos Santana in 2000 next to all the Grammys he won in one night for “Smooth”/“Supernatural”

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Bryan Cranston, Weird Al, and Aaron Paul.

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Steering wheels in cars have been getting thicker every decade.

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In the 1950s, former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson attended high school with singer Janis Joplin in Texas. There, he and other jocks at the school relentlessly bullied Janis by groping her and spreading rumors around school that she’d slept with their friends because she looked and acted weird.

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Dean Martin, also known as the King of Cool, bootlegged liquor, worked in a steel mill, served as a croupier in a speakeasy, and was a blackjack dealer, all before the age of 15. At 15, he turned to boxing. Out of his 12 matches, Martin said that he won all but 11.

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Walter White and Don Draper in a 2007 photoshoot, prior to both AMC shows going on air.

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This is the basement in a Wisconsin house where Dungeons and Dragons was created in 1973.

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When musician Lou Reed was a teenager, his parents believed that he was gay, and because of this, they subjected him to go though electroshock therapy to dispel his homosexual urges. Reed later called the experience traumatic, and wrote about it his 1974 song Kill Your Sons.

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The world’s oldest operating McDonald’s restaurant, located in California, has remained unchanged in appearance since it first opened in 1953.

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Shortly after his death, the corpse of actor John Barrymore (1882-1942) was “borrowed” by director Raoul Walsh and was left propped on a chair for a drunken Errol Flynn to discover when he came home. In 2020, John’s granddaughter, Drew Barrymore, confirmed this story.

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American actor Vincent Price was one of the first celebrities to film a public service announcement to help allay public fears about HIV/AIDS. He also denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison in 1950, and was critical of Anita Bryant’s anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s.

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At age 93, actor James Hong has gained more than 650 film and television credits since entering Hollywood 68 years ago. In his early days, he starred with Hollywood legends Clark Gable and Rock Hudson, and of one his most recent works was Turning Red. This man has seen cinema evolve immensely!

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A young Jennifer Coolidge in the 1980s.

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James Dean sitting in a car, signing photos for his fans at the peak of his career, just two months before dying in a car accident at the young age of 24.

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Darlene Love (22), and Cher (19) are pictured here in 1963, recording Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Cher sang backup vocals on this iconic Christmas song.

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This is the basement in a Wisconsin house where Dungeons and Dragons was created in 1973.

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When Jim Morrison was in his senior year, the books he read and reported on were all so offbeat, that teachers thought he made them up. A teacher also went to the Library of Congress to check if the books actually existed. He also had an IQ of 149, which is generally considered genius level.

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For a short time in the early ‘60s, McDonalds had a meatless burger on its menu, named the “Hula Burger”. The burger was a slice of grilled pineapple and cheese, between two buns. The Hula burger was quickly pulled after it’s sister burger, the Filet-O-Fish, was getting greater traction.

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Comedian Ricky Gervais in the 1980s.

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I got tired of waiting for the McRib to come to Canada, so I made my own!

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The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients stand on everybody's shelf”.

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Union subway station back when it was brand new and clean, 1954.

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Actor Paul Dooley (the dad from the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles”) is now 95 and looks as healthy as ever!

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David Hasselhoff, 1982.

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A 1934 photo showing what the Rome headquarters of Benito Mussolini’s Italian Facist Party looked like for the 1934 elections.

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Hollywood actress and dancer Caren Marsh Doll is pictured here in 1949 after surviving a plane crash in California. As of 2023, Caren is alive at 104 years old, and even volunteers as a dance therapy instructor at the Palm Springs Stroke Activity Center once a month!

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Michael Snow, the Canadian artist who was behind the iconic “Flightstop” art installation in the Eaton Centre, has passed away.

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On the left is the original mask that the 1978 “Halloween” film crew intended to use for Michael Myers, until they eventually settled on the iconic William Shatner mask painted white (right), as they decided it was more creepy since it was emotionless.

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In 1969, Paul McCartney’s head went missing from a Los Angeles billboard promoting the Beatles album “Abbey Road”. The mystery remained unsolved until 2012, when a man named Robert Quinn confessed that he stole it as a prank on his 19th birthday and still has McCartney’s head in his living room.

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Decided to make Dean Martin’s grandmother’ pasta fagioli. This was the exact recipe of pasta fagioli that Dean sang of in “That’s Amore” - and it tastes wonderful!

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Orson Welles, age 24, in September 1939. Just one year later, Welles would be directing, co-writing, and starring in what is now regarded as the greatest film ever made - CITIZEN KANE

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The last known image of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. This is a snapshot taken from a video of the band’s final rehearsal on November 21st, 1997. In less than 24 hours, Hutchence would be dead by suicide at age 37.

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This is the world’s largest nut. It’s called the “Coco de Mer” (Sea Coconut). It grows only in the Seychelles islands, and weighs between 15-30kg (33-66lbs). It is said that it has a mildly sweet, earthy taste that has a subtle citrus undertone.

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1974 TTC “Help Wanted” advertisement.

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Yorkdale Shopping Centre, 1965.

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The Doors being photographed for the album cover of their 1968 album, “Waiting for the Sun”.

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That time when actor/wrestler Mr. T came to the White House dressed as Santa Claus, 1983.

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What the the original Michael Myers mask from “Halloween” (1978) looks like nowadays

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[OC] My local Toys-R-Us store is selling an Etch-A-Sketch with a “No WiFi Required” symbol on it.

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The mugshot of actor Dennis Hopper, 1975. Hopper was arrested after he won some LSD in a poker game, then walked outside, pulled out a .357 magnum and shot a tree that he mistook for a grizzly bear.

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Singer Eric Carmen (“All By Myself,” “Hungry Eyes”) is dead at 74.

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[POEM] “I Am Troubled” by Jim Morrison.

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In the late 1990s, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick received a fan letter from fellow filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Stanley - wanting to compose the perfect reply, kept writing one draft after another. Weeks passed, then months. But before he was finally able to send his reply letter, Kurosawa died at 88.

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Two very good friends, Jim Morrison and Agnes Varda, in 1970. Varda was such a close friend of Morrison that when he died in 1971, she was one of the only five people that attended his funeral.

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The Gay family from New York hold the Guinness World Record for the biggest Christmas light display on a residential property. Nearly 700,000 lights shine every Holiday season, along with with more than 200 songs that are synchronized to the lights.

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This is a Sugarloaf. It was the usual way that granulated sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced.

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Nothing goes harder than Orson Welles standing in front of the cinema that was named after him.

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Before the Internet, when people had a question, they were able to call a librarian and ask them. The librarian would write the question down, research, find the answer, and then call back. Here is a question from 1963. Nowadays, you can still do this. Call your nearest library and ask any question.

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After Rush’s 1975 album “Caress of Steel” had disappointing sales, Mercury Records considered dropping the band. However, they were allowed to make one more album. Despite pressure from the label to go commercial, Rush ignored them and in 1976 released their breakthrough prog-rock album: “2112”.

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Frances Densmore with Blackfoot Mountain Chief during a 1916 phonograph recording session for the Bureau of American Ethnology.

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The time when a girl tried mailing herself to The Beatles in 1966.

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This pigeon just randomly flew into my home through the window...

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Former basketball player Sun Mingming, who’s 7’9, compared to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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The Altamont Free Concert was a rock concert held in California in December 1969, which was anticipated to be the “Woodstock West.” Instead - an 18 year old was fatally stabbed, two died by a hit-and-run car accident, and one died by an LSD-induced drowning in an irrigation canal.

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Al Pacino in 1971. He was 31 years old in this photo.

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The restaurant that Geddy and Alex would go to after performing gigs in the 1960s is now a cannabis shop.

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In 1961, singer Sammy Davis Jr, who supported JFK’s election campaign, didn’t receive an invitation to JFK’s inauguration because he was part of an interracial marriage at the time. Dean Martin, who was angered by this news, stood up for Sammy by declining his own invitation to the inauguration.

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Does this count? Used to be a full Pizza Hut about a year ago until KFC just had to take over half of the building... (Toronto, Canada).

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Still from a 1988 Pizza Hut training video.

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Before traffic lights went automatic in the 1920s, they were manually controlled by a traffic officer.

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On Black Friday 2008, 34 yr old Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, was asked by his employer to use his 6’5 body as a barrier for a crowd of over 2,000 people. He died that day after being trampled by the crowd. The shoppers did not concerned about his death, and even complained of waiting too long.

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The cast of “Back To The Future” just reunited at a Fan-Expo event.

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Steering wheels in cars have been getting thicker every decade.

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The three members of Rush surrounded by members of KISS, 1970s.

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For a short time in the early ‘60s, McDonalds had a meatless burger on its menu, named the “Hula Burger”. The burger was a slice of grilled pineapple and cheese, on a bun. The burger was quickly pulled after it’s sister burger, the Filet-O-Fish, was getting greater traction.

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Jim Parsons as a kid, 1980s.

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[homemade] McRib from McDonald’s

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Does anybody recognize this signature? Found this pressing of “Surf’s Up” at the thrift store.

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An American company is attempting to gather a group of volunteers in order to give them Hepatitis C...

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