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TIL that E. G. Daily who voiced Tommy Pickles in Rugrats & Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls, is also a singer. In 1986, she released her debut single "Say It, Say It". The single went to number one on the U.S. Dance Club Play chart for one week

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1mVO TIL After Elvis performed Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Paul Simon, who attended the show, said “That’s it, we might as well all give up now.”
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