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At the age of 8, Caryn Johnson, later to call herself Whoopi Goldberg,
made her first onstage appearance at the Helena Rubinstein Children's
Theatre in New York City.
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Until there was a pay raise in 1814, US Congressmen were paid $6 per
diem when Congress was in session.
[the last time we got our money's worth from them]
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Theodore Roosevelt was Eleanor Roosevelt's uncle.
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Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, 60 hairs,
90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000
sensory cells
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Pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck's real name is Arnold Dorsey.
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Granite conducts sound ten times faster than air.
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The body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels. The heart pumps blood
through this labyrinth and back again once every minute.
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Quasars are amazingly bright objects. A quasar generates 100 times as
much light as the whole of our galaxy in a space not much larger than
our solar system.
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There are eight bones in a human wrist.
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Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel Psycho anonymously from Bloch
for just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he
could to keep the ending a secret.
During filming, this movie was referred to as "Production 9401" or
"Wimpy".
The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40
million. Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and
money.
The actual house used for the design construction of the house used in
Psycho still stands in Kent, Ohio.
The shower scene has over 90 splices in it, and did not involve
Anthony Perkins at all. Perkins was in New York preparing for a play.
Contrary to popular rumours, during the shooting of the shower scene,
Hitchcock did not arrange for the water to suddenly go ice-cold when
the attack started.
The sound that the knife makes penetrating the flesh is actually the
sound of a knife stabbing a casaba melon.
The blood in the shower scene is actually chocolate sauce.
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Don't you feel much smarter now than before you read this?
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