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TIL that Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson were in a punk band together

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awdEy Today I Learned the ambulance service in most towns used to be ran by the funeral home. So if you needed to be taken to the hospital, you called the funeral home, and they’d use their hearse to transport you to the hospital (until purpose built ambulances became available in the late ‘60s & ‘70s).
neERW TIL that Kirk Douglass, the father of Michael Douglass (who is 75 years old), is STILL alive. Born in 1916, he is 102 years old and currently one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.
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