June 11-Corn on the Cob, Jacques Cousteau, 38 Special, Air Supply, Gene Wilder, Smoke Monkey

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to History in Fact D. It's

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about today, presented by Cool Media. There is June the eleventh coin cob.

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It's fun to jew coin cub.
Just pinking up a jew coin cob.

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You don't need a spoon when you
want to eat some corn. Get

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up coin cob. Oh yeah,
talking that con cob. When you want

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to eat some cord, Get corn
cob. It's sunning to jew you cor

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cob, just thinking up a jew
coin cop. You don't meat spoon when

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you want to eat some corn,
Get up colub. It is national Corner

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on the Cob day. Corn.
It was first domesticated and farmed around ten

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thousand years ago in southern Mexico.
Now, what a great excuse for a

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cookout today. Whatever you're cooking,
just make sure you include some corn on

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the cob. You can grill it, boil it, steam it. Yeah,

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and if you get bored, you
can count the number of rows on

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each era of corn. They should
always be an even number. They're about

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eight hundred kernels on every year of
corn. Now it's really healthy for you,

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So enjoy some corn on the cob
with the rest of your cookout today.

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See what's going on in entertainment.
On June the eleventh, let's back

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to nineteen eighty. Number one album
was Against the Wind by Bob Seger and

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the Silver Bullet Band lips Ink.
They had the number one song with Funky

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Town Ronney millsapp He had the number
one country song with My Heart Save Signs

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Small. There's My Plans apport through
Cosmo still belongs. The number one book

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was The Born Identity by Robert Lelham. The top movie was Empire Strikes Back

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Luke. He begins his Jedi trading
with Yoda now Darth Vader. He chases

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the rest of his friends across the
galaxy. It stars Mark Cammell, Harrison

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Ford, and Carrie Fisher. Back
in two thousand and two, American Island

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Idol debut. Do you remember the
first judges were Simon col Paul Abdull,

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Randy Jackson. All right, let's
see happen in the world on June the

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eleventh. Today it is western Honduras. In seven thirty eight it was a

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Maya city of Copan. Now after
eighteen Rabbit was killed Smoke Monkey, he

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took over the throne. There wanted
to talk about it because how often do

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I get to say smoke monkey?
Seventeen seventy eight British Captain James Cook he

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discovered at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Now, actually one of his ships hit

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the Great Barrier Reef and Cook said, hey, look what I discovered.

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Now, only six indred people lived
in Detroit in eighteen oh five, but

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a baker there he spilled his pipe
which set his barn on fire, which

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set the whole city on fire.
Yeah, when it was all over,

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only two brick chimneys were left standing. They caught the Great Detroit Fire.

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In nineteen nineteen, the racehorse shir
Barton It won the Belmont Stakes and had

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already won the Prickness in the Kentucky
Derby, so that made it was the

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first horse to win the horse racing's
triple crown. Nineteen twenty eight, Buddy

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arrived in the United States. His
first sing eyed acctic in the United States.

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Morris Frank He brought him back from
Switzerland, where he had been trained

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as a seeing eye dog to help
Morris out it was blind. After that,

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Morris he created the first sing I
dog school here in the United States

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and Tennessee. Nineteen fifty five oh
in France and the auto race of twenty

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four hours of the Bonds. They
had the worst wreck in motorsports history.

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Seeing Mike Carthurne. He made a
pitstop by pulling in front of Lance mcmacklin.

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Well, maclin had to swerve and
then he creamed into Pierre Levey.

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Pierre's car launched into the stands.
Now drivers back then didn't have seat belt,

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so he was thrown from the car
and killed. But then his car

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hit the stands and just disintegrated all
over him. Now, the hood of

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the car decaptivated several of the spectators
and you combine that with the rest of

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the car to breathe. Yeah,
eighty three spectators were killed. Nineteen ninety

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four and Jacksonville ford him. They
set the record the largest box of popcorn

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thirty nine feet long, twenty one
feet high, eight feet high. Yep,

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they had it all filled with popcorn. Two go cot co coat,

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goat shot. This Shibf day,
were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday.

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We gonna siple cars. He left
this Shibf day, and you know

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we don't get it. Was born
on Guinne the eleventh Gusteau. He was

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born in Saint Andre did cub zach
Frantz in nineteen dead. He was an

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underwater explorer, filmmaker, researcher,
inventner Now he made oceanography Call. He

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was the first one to make movies
and TV shows about the oceans and all

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the creatures that were in it.
Now to make us a the water explanation

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even easier. Yeah, he thended
the Scoopa gear. Yeah, basically the

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same stuff they used today. He
is married to his first wife for fifty

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three years when she died in nineteen
ninety They had four children. Married his

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second wife in nineteen ninety one.
Castelli died in nineteen ninety seven and eighty

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seven years old from a heart attack. Oddly, it wasn't buried to see

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comic comedic actsor Dean Wilder. He
was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In

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nineteen thirty three, he was nominated
for Oscars for the Producers in Young Frankenstein

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also played Willy Wonka and Willie Wonka
in the Chocolate Factory. Then he starred

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in Blazing Saddle, Stir Crazy Woman
in Red Jane. He had a daughter

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from his second wife. He was
married to Gilda Radner for five years when

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she died from cancer. Married his
fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. He

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died in twenty sixteen and eighty three
years old from Alzheimer's. Actress Adrian Barbo.

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She's seventy nine. She's born in
Sacramento, California, in nineteen forty

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five. She first got known playing
Rizzo on Greece and Broadway. Then she

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was b Arthur's daughter on the TV
show Mod. Then she yet big in

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the movies The Fog Is Escape from
New York, creep Show, Swamp Thing.

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She's actually filming too, getting ready
to film two movies right now.

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Her first husband was movie director John
Carpenter for five years and they had a

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son. She married her second husband
for twenty six years until they divorced.

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They had twin boys, now Adrian. She was fifty one years old when

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she gave birth to those twin boys. Don't know how I'm so lost to

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live. I'm going right believing what
I'm kidding, Too late to say that

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I was. That was Graham Russell, half of the heavy metal duo Air

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Supply. He was born in Arnold, England in nineteen fifties. Seventy four.

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Nineteen seventy five, he was touring
with the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar

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when he met Russell Hitchcock. They
formed Air Supply and they've sold over one

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hundred million albums since. Some of
their biggest songs are lost in Love,

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all out of every woman in the
world. Even the Knights are better making

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love out of nothing at all.
Now they're on tour right now. It's

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gonna run from the end of the
year. If you want to go catch

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one of their shows now. Graham
he married his high school sweetheart right as

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they graduated. They ended up with
a son and a daughter, Dors ten

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years later, been married to a
second wife since nineteen eighty six. Donnie

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van Zanti was the lead singer of
thirty eight Special, still one of the

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most underrated bands of the nineteen eighties. Donnie seventy two. He was born

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in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen
fifty two, formed thirty eight Special nineteen

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seventy four. It's all over twenty
five million records. They had the hits

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hold on Zoie rocking into the ninth
Caught Up in You, Fantasy Girl.

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His older brother, Ronnie was the
lead singer of Leonard Skinner when he was

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killed in that plane crash. Now
his younger brother Johnny, him and Ronnie

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they did perform together. They had
a band called Van ZANDT by Donnie.

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He had to retire in twenty thirteen
due to health issues. He is married

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to his wife, Ashley. Comedian
actor Hugh Lourie he was born in nineteen

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fifty nine and Blackbird, Lais,
England. He's sixty five. Started out

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in the English comedy team of Frid
Laurie in the nineteen eighties and nineties.

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First found fame in the United States
in two thousand and four when he started

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on the TV show House. Did
that until twenty twelve, then pretty much

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the rest of his stuff is all
British. He married nineteen eighty nine and

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they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Peter Dinkliche. He was born

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in Jersey Shore, New Jersey in
nineteen sixty nine. He's fifty five grew

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up in Ireland, though now he
has dwarf vism. He stands four feet

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five inches tall. He was on
ab SO eight HBO's Game of Thrones from

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twenty eleven to twenty nineteen. He
won four Primetime Emmys for it. Some

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of his movie is were Elf,
Little Fugitive, Death at a Funeral in

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Avengers Infinity War. Guy married in
two thousand and five and they have a

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son and a daughter. Actor Shia
la Beouf. He is thirty eight.

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He is born in Los Angeles nineteen
eighty six. Started performing stand up comedy

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in clubs at ten years old,
got his first job on Disney's Channel Even

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Stephen. Then he hit the movie
Some of Them are Disturbia, did all

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those Transformers movies, Indiana Jones and
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Man Down

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Now. He is married for two
years and they divorced. Then a couple

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of years later they started dating again
and now they have a daughter. All

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right, today is factoy that will
win you a beer. Let's go back

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to corn. One acre of corn. It eliminates eight tons of carbon dioxide

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from the air. Well, thank
you for being here today. You get

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at cool media dot com. That's
cool at three yeh's you know what.

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Let's end with actor John Wayne.
He died today in nineteen seventy nine at

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seventy two, John said courage is
being scared to death, but sad it

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up anyway, You guys have an
awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No

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