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Today I learned Howard Hughes loved banana nut ice cream so much his aides convinced Baskin-Robbins to produce a 350 gallon special order of the discontinued product. A few days later he grew tired of it and decided he only wanted French Vanilla so his hotel gave away the ice cream to customers.

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