Random Thursday

Today is the final day of facts on pop culture from Shane Carley's True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t! The next chapter will be on sports and likely my least favorite of things. Lol.

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Did you know that Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham only has 50 different words in it? Dr. Seuss apparently made a bet with a colleague that he could write a book with just 50 words in it and have it be a success.

Well, we know who won that bet!

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Did you know that Tim Allen almost went to prison for life before he became an actor? He apparently was a drug dealer before becoming an actor and avoided prison time by giving up names of other drug dealers.

Is this for real?! How have I never heard this before?! Lol.

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Did you know that Steve Buscemi was a firefighter before becoming an actor? Did you also know that after 9/11 he returned to working 12-hour shifts to help rescue people from the rubble?

I did not know that! Always kind of remembered him playing the crazy guy in most movies. That's amazing!!

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Did you know that Woody Harrelson's father was an assassin who murdered a federal judge? His father also claimed to have a hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy--though it's been widely discredited.

Whoa. But then again, I never really paid much attention to celebs' personal lives.

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Did you know that in his college days, Samuel L. Jackson was with a group of students when they held the Morehead College Board of Trustees hostage? And among those hostages was Martin Luther King, Sr.

What the what?!!!