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TIL Jim Varney appeared in-character as Ernest P. Worrell entertaining the press corps at the White House

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XELX8 TIL Henk Rogers just went to Moscow and tried to buy the rights for Tetris from the Soviet Union. When Rogers arrived at Electronorgtechnica his translator refused to go inside as going to a government agent without proper paperwork was unthinkable. Rogers went in anyways and got rights to Tetris.
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