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TIL Keith Thibodeaux aka Richard Keith, who played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy was paid $461 a week. At age 3 he was making $500 a week playing drums on tour. Today he would be making 5,123.55 a week doing the same gig at the same pay scale.

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