July 10, 2025

July 11th - Free Slurpees! Yul Brynner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Suzanne Vega, Lil Kim, John Quincy Adams

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Free Slurpee day. Entertainment 2016. US Marine corp brought back, 1st woman ordered to pay alimony, NYC Police arrest man walking around stabbing women with darts. Todays birthdays - John Quincy Adams, Yul Brynner, Jeff Hanna, Bruce McGill, Suzanne Vega, Lil Kim. Laurence Olivier died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Dance the slurp - robowen1
One dance - Drake Whizkid Kyla
Holy - Florida Georgia Line
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Fishin in the dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Luka - Suzanne Vega
No time - Lil Kim
Exit - One last look around - Blacktop Rodeo https://www.blacktoprodeo.com/

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Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto.

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It's about today. This is July the eleventh. Today is

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National Free Slurpee Day. Seven eleven stores. They celebrate their

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birthday every July the eleventh. I've been so this is

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their ninety eighth birthday this year. Now they're giving away

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free small slurpees in all their stores today. In the

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early nineteen fifties, Oh, Mark knet Nick, he owned Derek

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Queen out there in case his soda fountain broke down,

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so he put his soda bottles in the freezer, you know,

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just to keep him call. But the kind of half

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froze became slush started selling the huge hit now he

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called them icys in in nineteen sixty six. Seven eleven,

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they bought exclusive rice to his ices and they started

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selling them all their stories except they read named them

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slurp piece. I don't know why Dairy Queen didn't do it.

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Seven eleven. They're the largest franchise company in the entire world.

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There are more, Yeah, they have more than McDonald's. There

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are twenty thousand more seven elevens in the ore. McDonald's

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Japan they have the most seven elevens of any country.

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All right, let's he's going on entertainment On July the

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eleventh got their twenty sixteen number one album was Views

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by Drake. Drake Whiz Kidding. Kyla had the number one

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song with one Dance.

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I pray to make it back at one piece, I pray,

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I pray. That's why I need no one nurs God,

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Annisy in mind. One more time for high highap I

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was taking him. Oh hold on me, I need no

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one nurse. Got Annes in mine. One more time for

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I Go high Alp Hollow taking.

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A Florida Georgia Lyon had the number one country song

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with Holy Brendame.

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Jay Silvy, Never Leaven could She's the first thing I knew.

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I can't believe Manly cove You.

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The number one book was First Comes Love by Emily Griffin.

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The top movie was the Secret Life of Pets. A

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terrier named Max. His life goes downhill when his owner

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is taking a straight dog named Duke. Voice by Lewis C. K,

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Eric stone Street, Kevin Hart, Dana Carvey, whole bunch more,

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all right, what happened On July the eleventh, sixteen fifty six,

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The first Quakers landed in Boston. Now two English women

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and Austin and Mary Fisher. Things didn't go well, see

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the prudens prudance. Yeah, they didn't light the Quakers at all.

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So Anna and Mary they actually were arresting then had

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to spend five weeks in jail. Then they got deported

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to by Beatos. Little irony that that Peeredans came to

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America to escape religious persecution. The United States Marine Corps

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it was founded on November tenth and seventeen seventy five.

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Now they were the Continental Marines and the American Revolution.

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Now that is the day that the Marines still celebrated

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their birthday. But the Marines they were disbandoned after the

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war in seventeen eighty three. Then today in seventeen ninety eight,

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the Marines there, they were brought back US Congress reinstated

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in the Marine Corps. They brought him back because the

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thought might have to fight in Napoleon eighteen oh four

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are the famous duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and

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former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Yeah, I went

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down in New Jersey. Now Burr killed Hamilton, So that

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killed Burr's political career. So the only winner, President Thomas Jefferson. Yeah,

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they were the two biggest political rivals, and he aided

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both of them. Eighteen sixty three, in New York City,

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the Union Army held its first draft lottery. Now, if

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you paid three hundred dollars, you didn't have to put

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your name in the Yeah, you're out of the lottery.

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Today that'd be out seventy five hundred dollars. So yeah,

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the rich people, they were able to buy their way

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out of the draft. Eighteen ninety two, the US Patent

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Office it rolled that England's Joseph Swan actually invented the

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light bulb. Yeah, it wasn't Thomas Edison. Swan beating his

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some by eighteen months. This was kind of creative. Nineteen

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seventy six, before an Atlanta Braves baseball game, they held

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headlocks and wedlocks night. Thirty four couples were married at

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home plate and then they had a professional wrestling match.

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Nineteen eighty one, Never Rockefeller, who had the famous Rockefeller family.

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She became the first woman in history to have a

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court ordered maker pay her husband alimony. That's right, her husband.

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He was just this lowly college professor, and she was

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worth forty one million bucks. Judge told her he just

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give the do two thousand dollars a month. That's a

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little over seven thousand to day. Nineteen eighty eight boxer

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Mike Tyson. Now Donald Trump was an advisor. Nineteen ninety

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New York City. Please they arrested dart Man. Yeah, dart Man.

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See this guy.

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He would just walk around the city stabbing women with darts. Yeah.

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He stabbed over fifty women, mostly in the butt. Now

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thirty three year olds, you're own right. He paid one

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thousand dollars bail and they dropped all his charges down

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to just tiny misdemeanors.

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Joke, joke, dis shibbert Day.

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We're gonna page he left this Shibirthday.

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We got simpletage.

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He's like dis shibirth Day.

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And you know we don't give up.

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Birthday, all right. I was born on July the eleventh.

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John Quincy Adams. He was born in brain Dream, Massachusetts,

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in seventeen sixty seven. Now it's Quincy, Massachusetts. His dad

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was John Adams, founding father and the second President of

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the United States. John Quincy. He was the sixty US president.

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He was pretty much just a career politician with a

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famous name surf from president from eighteen twenty five eighteen

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twenty nine. Got married in nineteen ninety seven or seventeen

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ninety seven. They had four kids. John Quincy he died

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in eighteen forty eight at eighty years old, on the

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floor the House Representatives from a stroke. See. After he

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lost his re election for president, he went back and

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went to the House of Representative. Yeah, he was there

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from eighteen thirty one until he died on the floor

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in forty eight. Actor Jo Brynner. He was born in

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that of Ustok, Russia, in nineteen twenty now after the

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Russian Revolution, when the Communist took over, his family fled

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to Paris, then Switzerland, China, Fine in the United States.

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He got here when he was twenty. Nineteen fifty one,

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he shaved his head for the first time. Yeah, it

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was the star in the Broadway play The King and I.

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He liked the way it looks, so he just shaved

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his head for the rest of his life. From nineteen

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fifty one to nineteen eighty five. He started The King

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and I four thousand, six hundred and twenty five times

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and even won an Oscar for it when they made

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it into a movie. Now he did take breaks, you know,

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off from the Broadway show to do other stuff, like

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some of his movies Where Are the Ten Commandments, Anastasia,

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the Magnificent Seven. And he had one child from a fling.

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He had one child from his first wife, one child

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from his second wife, two children from his third wife.

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Married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty three, but then

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he died from lung cancer nineteen eighty five, at sixty

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five years old.

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You in the Dark seven Count the Stars.

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Slow, Jeff Hannah. He still sings for the Nitty Gritty

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Dirt band Jeff. He's seventy eight. He is born in Detroit. Now,

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him and some of his friend in high school, they

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started themselves a jug band, became Nitty Gritty in nineteen

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sixty six. They've had the hits modern day romance babies

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got a hold on me fishing in the dark. I've

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been lucky. They're getting ready to go out on and

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doing some tour in July seventeenth until the end of summer.

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Now Jeff's son, he actually go lead sings with Jeff

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when they go out on tour. He also has a daughter.

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Then he got married in nineteen ninety three. Actor Bruce McGill.

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He was born in San Antonio, Texas seventy five. First

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got No Home, playing d Day in the movie Animal House.

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Then he was in the Last Boy Scout, My cousin, Vannie, Cinderella,

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Man Lincoln. On TV, he was on Rosolian Aisles. He

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was on the first season A Reacher Bruce. He got

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married nineteen ninety four. I Susan Vega. She's sixty six.

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She has one in Santa Monica, California. Moved to New

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York when she was two. She grew up in Spanish Harlem.

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Released her first album in nineteen eighty five.

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Get this.

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She's actually a lot bigger than the UK and Europe

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than she has been over here, Yeah, over here. Basically

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her only hits for Luca Book of Dreams and ninety

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nine point nine Degrees Fahrenheit. And she's on tour right now, yep,

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in Europe. Now a lot of those shows are actually

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sold out. If you look at him. In nineteen eighty six,

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a lawyer and a poet, he proposed to Susan. She

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said no. She ended up marrying another guy. They were

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married three years before they divorced. They had a daughter.

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Then in two thousand and six, twenty two years after

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he proposed, she married that lawyer and poet. Yeah they're

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still happy.

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Woman, I'm a fucking legends and manchesterss trying to stick

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the the for his paste, the same chick chest you

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want to get kick and Nicky Rivers got a spy, Johnny.

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That is rapper Lil Kim. She's fifty one. She's broun

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in Brooklyn, New York. She gets the name Little Kim.

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Wow.

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She stands four eleven. Now the We're Rapper notory is big.

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He discovered Kim in nineteen ninety four. Now she sold

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over thirty million records. That is huge for a female rapper.

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Now.

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A couple of her hits are No Time, No Thanks,

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Magic Stick because it was Lady Marmelade. That was with

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Christina Aguilera Pink and Maya Kim. She she had to

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get fifth on Dancing with the Stars, so I mean

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that wasn't so bad. She lost Jim Nast Shawn Johnson.

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She had one daughter and she hadn't married yet or anything.

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But she's actually out into it right now. Until the

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end of September, everyone will check out Little Kim all

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in our court of the day is gonna come from

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Laurence Olivier. He died today in nineteen eighty nine and

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eighty two years old. Lauren said, having a have a

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very good reason for everything that you do. Okay, well,

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look around you guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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Note on the door, lady keys on the counter. There's

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a beer in the fridge, empty box in the hall.

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I left some pitch tang and namty wa.

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we take them down.

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Round trying to fig right now.

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same damn last by los. Wee gonna try to find

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keep it off from coming down to one last round.

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look around, trying to face around. Now we came down

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to be Angie came be in the same embroom one

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Kbe doll from coming down. One lass around

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