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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Real Amazing Facts 27

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
 

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
 

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
 

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
 

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
 

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
 

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
 

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?  It's Paul Reiser himself..  And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
 

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
 

Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show  Growing Pains  wrote the theme songs for  The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .