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TIL the voice recordings of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," were completed in one day. The sophisticated dialogue meant phrases such as "eastern syndicate," were difficult for the young child actors to pronounce. Jefferson Airplane was recording next door and came over to get the children's autographs.

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Z8e0D TIL that stagecoaches were called so because they travelled in small "stages" of 10-15 miles
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