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TIL: Top 40 singer and outspoken conservative, Anita Bryant, was in the middle of a press conference on “doing away with homosexuals” when a man hit her in the face with a banana cream pie on live TV. Bryant’s response, “Well, at least it was a fruit pie.”

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