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TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. He told her to give him the money and get a receipt. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow’s home.

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MeB9V TIL Ken Osmond was not the original Eddie Haskell. The original was another child actor whose parents wanted him to go to high school and college instead of being a full-time child actor. Ironically Osmond grew up to be a cop while the original still enjoys a lucrative career in show business.
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