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TIL that comedian Gracie Allen kept her age a secret, even from husband George Burns. She joked that she was born in July 1906 and the birth certificate was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 (Allen: “It was an awfully big earthquake”). The US census proves she was born in 1895.

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