March 14th-Potato Chips, Albert Einstein, Disco Duck, Billy Crystal, Tetris, Hanson, Quincy Jones

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to history and Factoids about today is

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in a by Cool Media. Hope
you're all having a great Thursday. It's

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a blizzard day here in Colorado today. Now, don't get too excited just

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yet. Today is National Pie Day. But not the kind of pie that

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you like. No, this is
the pie pi you know, the mathematical

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constant. It goes three point one
four nine, and yeah, it just

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goes on forever. Now, I
don't know why you'd want to celebrate that,

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and I don't know why you'd want
to do this. In twenty nineteen,

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Emma haraku Ioa, she set the
record. She calculated pie to thirty

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one point four trillion digits. Now
that might sound impression, but I'm kinda

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think you need to get a life. But now this is impressive. This

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is an awesome way to celebrate March
the fourteenth. Potato tips, How potato

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tips? My mouth? Rip,
crunch, crunch. I don't want no

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lunch. All I want is potato
chips. Potato chips, How my mouth,

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potato chips? It is National Potato
chip Day. Told you it was

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awesome. In eighteen fifty three,
at the Saratoga Inn, and Saratoga Springs,

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New York. A customer in a
restaurant he kept sending back his potatoes

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saying that they were thick and sogging. So the chef, George Crume,

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he really got pissed off. So
he just sliced those potatoes as thin as

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he possibly could, and then he
fried him up as chrisp as he could.

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Then he put a whole bunch of
extra salt on him and sent him

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back to today. Wow, the
customer, he loved him, and the

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potato chip was born. The only
downside about today is potato chips are one

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of the most unhealthy foods that you
can possibly eat. That won't worry about

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that later on today, We're just
gonna celebrate the potato chip. All right,

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this is going on in entertainment on
March the fourteenth, Let's go back

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here, two thousand and seven number
one album was Not Too Late by Norah

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Jones. MIMS had the number one
song, and this is why I'm hot.

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This is what this is wat This
is whim hot. This is wim

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hot hot, this is wim hot. This is why this is why this

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is wam hot. I'm hot because
I'm flying. Ain't because this is what

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this is wat this is Sam Hot. I'm hot because I'm flying. Ain't

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cush this is this is trace Atkins
had the number one country song with Ladies

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Love Country Boys. She ran in
the middle of a speaker truck, claring

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Charlie Daniels him. In turn,
they raised her up a lady. But

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there's one thing they club ball Ladies
Warm Country Boy. The number one book

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was Shoppahallock and Baby by Sophie Kinsella. The top movie was three hundred three

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hundred Spartans. They have to fight
a massive Persian army, stars Conrad Butler,

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Lena Headley, and David Winham.
Nineteen seventy two, California Governor Ronald

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Reagan he pardoned Merle Haggard. Yeah, the country singer. See he absolutely

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absolved Merle for a burglary that he
had committed. We had to spend three

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years in prison for it. Merle, he can now vote again. All

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right, Let's see what this happened
in the world. On March the fourteenth,

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Now way back the city of Boston. They were all Puritan and seeing

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they outlawed being a Quaker see Quaker, as they believe that God talked to

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everybody, not just the clergy,
to the Puritans. That was just pure

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heresy. So if you were a
Quaker in Boston, you could be branded

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with an age for heretic. You
could have a hot iron bore a hole

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through your tongue, or you could
have your ears cut off. Why are

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you could just be hung well out
today? In sixteen sixty one, the

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fourth Quaker to be hung was His
name was William Hedro. Now word of

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hedderas hanging made it all the way
back to England. Yeah, England's King

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Charles, he heard about it and
he put a stop to that really fast,

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told him basically to start playing nice. Now, those four who were

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hung for it, they're actually known
today in the Boston Martyrs. Seventeen ninety

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four, L. Whitney, he
got his patent for invented the cotton gin.

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It separated the cotton from the seeds. See, a person could clean

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around two pounds of cotton a day, but the gin, it can clean

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almost fifty five pounds. So that
revolutionized the cotton industry, made it hugely

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profitable. The United States went from
exporting five hundred thousand pounds of cotton a

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year and seventeen ninety three ten million
pounds in eighteen ten. That came with

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a really bad downside though. Cotton
was grown down in the South, so

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to keep it super profitable, yeah, they had to use a lot of

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slave labor and it really grew a
lot. Eighteen twelve, the United States

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sent started selling war bonds for the
first time. It was to pay for

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the War of eighteen twelve. Sold
about eleven million dollars worth of them.

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Nineteen twenty three, the twenty ninth
President of the United States, William G.

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Harding, made history became the first
president who had to pay an income

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dext Nineteen thirty one, in New
York City, they built the first movie

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theater where the movie projector is actually
in the back of the theater. Nineteen

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sixty four in Dallas, Texas,
Jack Ruby. He was sentenced to death

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for kill Lee Harvey Oswald, who
had killed President John F. Kennedy.

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Nineteen ninety seven President Bill Clinton.
He tripped, injured his knee really bad.

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It required surgery, but it's still
classified. They won't say whether he's

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running away from Hillary or an irate
husband. Coke Coke goat shage this shibirth

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day. We're gonna tag he left
this shibirth day. We don't simple targe.

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He's like this shibirth day. And
you know, we don't give up

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because that's birthday, all right.
It was born on March the fourteenth.

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Albert Einstein. He was born in
Olm, Germany, in eighteen seventy nine.

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He's the most famous physicist of all
time. Now, just regular people

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like me, We even know about
his theory of relativity. You know,

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E equals MBC squared. That's the
most famous equation of all time. You

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know what it is though, E
equals mc squared. It is energy equals

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mass times the speed of light squared. Einstein he fled Germany for the United

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States in nineteen thirty five, sold
them Princeton, New Jersey. Now he

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didn't actually work at Princeton University.
Now, he just kind of did his

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own thing. His first wife in
nineteen oh three, and they had a

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daughter and two sons. They divorced
in nineteen nineteen. Now, part of

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the divorce degree has stated that if
Einstein ever won the Nobel Prize, she

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got the money. She got the
money in nineteen twelve. He married his

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cousin in nineteen nineteen and they were
together until she died in nineteen thirty six.

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Albert He died nineteen fifty five from
abderm abdominal aortic aneurysm. It's seventy

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six years old now. He had
actually refused treatment for it. He said

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he was ready to go. Actor
Sir Michael Caine is ninety one. He's

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born in ruther Hike to England in
nineteen thirty three. Won Oscars for Hanna

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and her sisters in The Cider House
Roles. Nominated for four other movies Ben

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and over one hundred and thirty movies. They've made almost eight billion dollars.

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Some of his recent movies that you'll
know he was Alfred and three of the

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Batman movies. He did that Now
You See Me movies, Journey to the

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Mysterious Island. He was actually in
The Great Escaper just last year and that

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was it. Said. He's done, he's retired. He had a daughter

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from his first wife, married his
second wife in nineteen ninety three or nineteen

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seventy three, and they have a
daughter. One of the most famous names

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in music history, Quincy Jones.
He's also ninety one, born in Chicago

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in nineteen thirty three, He's a
record producer, songwriter, musician, composer.

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Started out in nineteen forty nine,
still going. He's been nominated for

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Grammys a record eighty times. He's
won twenty eight of them. But that's

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not the record. No, Beyonce
old the records. He's won thirty two

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Grammys. He's worked with everybody,
so there's no reason to start name dropping

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ninety year and yuarro Quincy Jones.
He's never learned how to drive a car.

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He had a daughter from his first
wife, then he had a daughter

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from a fling. Then he had
a daughter and a son from his second

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wife. His third wife was actress
Piggy Lipton. Their two daughters are both

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actresses, Kadida and Rashida Jones.
Now, after that a divorce in nineteen

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eighty nine, he decided that was
it and he wasn't getting married anymore.

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I mean he did have one more
daughter for fun, though so much the

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body of a stage to Kaz and
neverever, tell me what's forever. Country

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singer Michael Martin Murphy is seventy nine, born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen

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forty five. Now he's going out
on tour on March fourteenth if you want

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to check Michael out. Start out
as a folk singer. Then he started

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a band called the Trinity River Boys. One of that guys in the band

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his name is Michael Nis Smith.
Yeah. He went on to be a

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member of the Monkeys kind of Michael
Murphy with him. Murphy actually wrote some

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of the Beatles songs until he got
his own record deal in nineteen seventy two.

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Nineteen seventy five, he crossed over
and had the number one hitting the

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country on the pop chart with Wildfire. Some of his country hits are What's

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Forever for, still taking Chances along
line of love, I'm Gonna miss You

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Girl. He has four times divorced
and thirty has one daughter and one son.

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Actor comedian Billy Crystal. He was
born in Manhattan, New York in

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nineteen forty eighty seventy six. First
got known on the TV sit On Soap.

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Then he was on Saturday Night Live
for one season. His first movie

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was Rabbit Test, then he had
Running Scared, Throw Mama from the Train,

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when Harry Met Sale, did the
City Slickers movies. He hosted the

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Academy Awards nine times. He has
won two Emmys for hosting the Academy Award

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shows. He married his high school
sweetheart in nineteen seventy and they have two

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daughters. Wow disc jockey actor TV
host Rick D's. He was born in

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nineteen fifty in Jacksonville, Florida,
seventy four year old. In nineteen seventy

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six, he was a DJ at
station in Memphis, Tennessee. You're just

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goofing around and recorded that song Disco
Duck ended up going number one, sold

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over six million copies. It was
also a huge hit in Australia and Great

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Britain, and he said, okay, he started to releasing another parody.

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Is that nothing that big? He
did get some small acting roles in some

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movies and TV shows. He got
his on late night TV talk show though

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for a couple of years. He
is best known though for a syndicated radio

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show, Rick D's Top forty Countdown. Been doing this since nineteen eighty three.

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It's on over too in a radio
station. Been married to a second

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wife since nineteen seventy eight and they
have a son. So how much time

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have you wasted over the years playing
the game tetris? Alexi Tajatov. He

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was born in Moscow, Soviet Union
in nineteen fifty five. He's sixty nine.

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He created Tetris back in nineteen eighty
four. He's working for the Soviet

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government. No, it wasn't his
job. He was just goofing around and

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came up with the Then it became
a big hit over in the Soviet Union.

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A guy named Hank Rogers, an
American, he heard about that game,

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so he went to the Soviet Union. He's able to get the light

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their rights to the game, so
then he licensed those rights to the Nintendo.

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They're the ones who brought it to
the United States. In Japan,

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Oh Alexi, he didn't get a
dime for it, so he came to

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the United States in nineteen ninety one
and him and Rogers they formed the Tetris

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Company now Alexi. He was able
to get paid. He's married and they

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have two sons. I honestly have
no idea if there's a difference between the

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old Hawaiian five Zho and the new
one that they did. Grace Park she's

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fifty. She was born in Los
Angeles in nineteen seventy four, moved to

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Canada when she was till She's best
known for playing Tono on Hawaii five Oh

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played at from twenty ten to twenty
seventeen. Then she did A Million Little

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Thing for five years. Before both
of that, she was on Battlestar Galactica

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for five years. Some of her
movies were West thirty, Second, Straight,

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Adventures in Public Schools, Freaks.
She got married in two thousand and

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four and they have a son.
Actor Chris Klein. He was born in

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nineteen seventy nine and Hinsdale, Illinois, forty five year first hit playing Odds

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in the American Five movies, Then
Say It Is and So We Were Soldiers

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Just Friends on TV. He's best
known for playing Cicada in The Flash.

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He's been on Sweet Magnoia since twenty
twenty. I think that's on Netflix.

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Chrissy married in twenty fifteen and they
have a son and a daughter. Taylor

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Anson's forty one. He was born
in Tulsa, Clomb in nineteen eighty three.

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He his older brother Isaac, and
his younger brother there' Zach formed Hanson

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in nineteen ninety two. Now there
are actually seven handsome kids, but those

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three hit big. Taylor he's their
lead singer, plus he plays the keyboards.

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Some of their biggers hit sorry,
where's the love. I will come

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to you this time around, Bob. They're actually releasing a new movie and

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getting ready to go out and do
some turn If you want to go check

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out Hanson Taylor. He got married
in two thousand and two and they have

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seven children, four boys and three
girls. All Right, today's factoid that

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will win you beer. Scientists they
have proven that people who listen to classical

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music have the same personalities as people
who listen to heavy metal. I wouldn't

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they all right, let's end of
Stephen Hawking. He died today in twenty

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eighteen, seventy six years old.
However difficult life may seem, there's always

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something that you can do and succeed
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