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TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance

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