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TIL that Bob Barker, who hosted "The Price is Right," trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to the fleet in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."

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