Trivia
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Wednesday November 26, 2008 |
| James Dean was to star in the 1956 film Somebody Up There Likes Me -- his untimely death in a car accident in 1955 sent studio bosses scrambling. After an exhaustive search for the "new James Dean," little-known actor Paul Newman was cast in the film's lead role. Film executives felt Newman looked more like Dean than any of the other actors considered. Dean's death was a fortuitous event in young Newman's film career. |
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| Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead. |
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| The groom's cake dates back to the mid-19th century. At that time, the traditional wedding cake had evolved from a popular single-layer fruitcake into a stacked pound-cake shaped like a church steeple. But guests still wanted fruitcake. To appease the masses, newlyweds would serve two cakes -- the wedding cake and the fruitcake. The wedding cake was eaten at the reception; the fruitcake, or the groom's cake (as it soon became known), was sliced and boxed for guests to take home. Legend has it that an unmarried woman who placed her slice under her pillow would dream of her husband-to-be. Two cakes -- especially in the southern U.S. -- continued to be offered to wedding guests until after World War II. |
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| Acorns are poisonous to humans, and, if eaten, will cause kidney damage. |
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| At lavish Christmas feasts in the Middle Ages, swans and peacocks were sometimes served "endored." This meant the flesh was painted with saffron dissolved in melted butter. In addition to their painted flesh, endored birds were served wrapped in their own skin and feathers, which had been removed and set aside prior to roasting. |
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