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TIL the actor who played Uncle Fester, Jackie Coogan, also starred as the kid with Charlie Chaplin in “The Kid”. After his parents spent almost all of his $3-$4 million earnings, the “Coogan Bill” was passed to protect child actors. He was also a WWII pilot and married to Betty Grable.

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