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Monday, November 16, 2009

Did you know the only person to received a wood Oscar?

Did You know that:


Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.














Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.










Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck






The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.

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