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TIL that Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett/Beverly Hillbillies) was a Song and Dance Man in the 1930's

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6Er8w TIL: In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (The show that was the basis for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) that Bandora (Rita Repulsa) is a Satan worshiping witch who sacrifices children because a dinosaur killed her child
yVdXX TIL: There is a jail for Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba.
0dJJ5 TIL that during the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964), the actor Harold Sakata who played Oddjob, badly burned his hand in the electrocution scene. However Sakata managed to last until the director said cut.
PYn6e TIL that getting rid of undesired men as well as cruel and/or incompetent officers by sending them on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.
kJjjd TIL that Rollerskate Skinny (Irish shoegaze band) and Rollerskate Skinny (song by Old 97's) got their names from Holden Caulfield's description of "Phoebe" from The Catcher in the Rye