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The talk section on the Wikipedia article about the acronym "MILF" is quite interesting. There have been heated discussions about age range and if having a child is actually a prerequisite.
Of course the article itself has a disambiguation that helps people who were actually looking for information about Moro Islamic Liberation Front. That article in turn has this line:
> MILF announced that it would disarm its 30,000 fighters.
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> French Connection II (1975) is a fictional sequel.
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> J. T. Walsh was originally cast as Grimmer, completing two days of filming, before Dan Aykroyd learned he had been in the cast of the John Belushi biopic Wired. He reportedly had Walsh fired over his participation in the other film, which Aykroyd had opposed.
Since the film in question was Loose Cannons you could argue J. T. Walsh dodged a bullet.
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> Daedalus then created a hollow wooden cow covered with real cow-skin, so realistic that it fooled the Cretan Bull.
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The section heading on #Wikipedia sometimes give us quite a glimpse into a person's life:
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> The French newspaper Le Siècle described [Li Hongzhang] as "the yellow Bismarck."
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"[Calvin Graham] enlisted in the United States Navy from Houston, Texas on August 15, 1942, at the age of 12. [...] At age 14 he married and became a father the following year. At age 17 he was divorced when he enlisted in the Marine Corps."
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> Among [Hoyt Axton's (the father from Gremlins)] best-known songs are "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer" and "Never Been to Spain".
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> His mother Mae Boren Axton, a songwriter, cowrote the song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became a major hit for Elvis Presley. -
> [Hans] Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles' music video for the 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star".
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> In 2004, some of [Veronica] Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store.
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#Wikipedia to the rescue. I did not know this.
> The title refers to the distance, not depth, traveled under the various seas: 20,000 metric leagues (80,000 km, over 40,000 nautical miles), nearly twice the circumference of the Earth.
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> The 27-year old Greek king died of sepsis after being bitten by a palace steward's pet Barbary macaque in his garden, while trying to break up a fight between his German shepherd and another monkey.
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> In 1926, Harry Houdini hired H. P. Lovecraft and his friend C. M. Eddy, Jr., to write an entire book about debunking religious miracles, which was to be called The Cancer of Superstition. Houdini had earlier asked Lovecraft to write an article about astrology, for which he paid $75 (equivalent to $1,240 in 2022). The article does not survive.
#HarryHoudini #WikiWeird #HPLovecraft #CMEddyJr #RealLifeCrossover
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> [Braverman] is named after the character Sue Ellen Ewing from the American television soap opera Dallas, which her mother was a fan of, but Sue-Ellen was abbreviated to Suella by her primary school teachers.
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> Christian's name in Germany thus is Christian Heinrich Clemens Paul Frank Peter Welf Wilhelm-Ernst Friedrich Franz Prinz von Hannover Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg Königlicher Prinz von Großbritannien und Irland, where Prinz von Hannover Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg Königlicher Prinz von Großbritannien und Irland is his last name, not his title.
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> The development of Bee Movie began when Steven Spielberg approached DreamWorks Animation CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg after Jerry Seinfeld asked him to make an animated film featuring insects.
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> On May 18, 2023, [Ireland] Baldwin gave birth to a baby girl named Holland
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Totally normal pact with a 15 year old.
> [Stephen Baldwin] has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the initials "HM" for Hannah Montana. He got the tattoo after making a pact with Miley Cyrus that he would be allowed to cameo on the show if he had the initials tattooed on him. He revealed the tattoo to Cyrus at a book signing in Nashville on November 10, 2008. He was never given the opportunity to appear on the show and has since said that he regrets getting the tattoo.
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I do approve of the caption for this photo on the #Wikipedia entry for Diana Mosley:
> Diana's grave at far right,
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> Denis is the most famous cephalophore in Christian history, with a popular story claiming that the decapitated bishop picked up his head and walked several miles while preaching a sermon on repentance.
> A cephalophore (from the Greek for "head-carrier") is a saint who is generally depicted carrying their own severed head.
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> Friedrich and Elisabeth were close during their childhood and early adult years. He took to calling her Llama throughout their lives because he felt that the description of the load bearing, saliva spitting, stubborn animal fit her well.
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A criminal stealing VW Beetles (and Porches apparently) to turn them into dune buggies sounds kind of whimsical. Though not when his name is Charles Manson.
> On August 16, the sheriff's office raided Spahn Ranch and arrested [Charles] Manson and 25 others, as "suspects in a major auto theft ring" that had been stealing Volkswagen Beetles and converting them into dune buggies.