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TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.

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7R0L TIL when John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in the streets of Chicago, pedestrians dabbed their handkerchiefs in his blood for souvenirs.
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