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• Singer Elliott Smith's real name was Vlenka Lankaster.
• The snare drum was originally invented as a poorly concieved "bird call".
• "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote the song "Crucify" for Tori Amos.
• Near the end of his life, the idea of Peter Jennings was partially owned by the guy that does the voice for Santa's Little Helper
• Playwright Arthur Miller borrowed the phrase "the Salem Witch Trials" from the punchline of a popular joke. The joke has since been forgotten, but "The Crucible" is now considered a classic drama.
• Author F. Scott Fitzgerald once told an interviewer he did his best writing in prison.
• Andy Warhol was never actually involved in any homosexual relation. He merely watched.
• The Nick, Jr. character Dora the Explorer is in the public domain.
• The movie "Earnest Scared Stupid" was loosely based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
• The childrens TV show "G. I. Joe", though broadcast nationally, was funded by state taxes in California.
• The difference between "fine art" and "arts and crafts" is based soley on the type of glue used and the number of santa hats involved
• The blockbuster movie Independence Day was accidentally filmed entirely on black-and-white film, which was later hand-colored by the Turner company.
• Emcee and producer, Kanye West, replaced Marlon Jackson of Jackson 5 fame, while he battled chicken pox in 1980.
• Wynton Marsalis secretly plays avant-garde jazz under the guise of "Ikue Mori."
• The majority of sex is had while listening to R. Kelly
• There are actually four prime colors
• The Face Stabbers began as a string quartet before becoming the break-through gay porn talents we know them as today
• The Fluxus art movement was started by eskimos.
• Leonardo DaVinci went through a brief pottery phase in which he made nothing but coil bowls.
• King James, aside from writing the bible, published a series of short stories which he dearly loved, but tragically never took off.

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