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TIL Actor Sorrell Booke (Famous for his role "Boss Hog" on "Dukes of Hazzard") attended both Columbia and Yale, was fluent in 12 languages (including Japanese and Korean), and served as a US Army Intelligence Officer in the Korean War.

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