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Muhammad Ali’s accessibility to competitive sports lead to acceptance of cultural and non-gender jump roping. Today, many male and female bodybuilders use it as a cardiovascular part of their training routine.


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The Odd Couple’ Was Inspired by a True Story.


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Odd Couple executive producers Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson had tried to get Martin Balsam as Oscar and Art Carney as Felix.


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ABC Feared Oscar and Felix Would Be Perceived As Gay.


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Wal-mart averages a profit of 1.8 million dollars every hour.


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The average Wal-mart super center sells 140,000 items.


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90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Wal-mart.


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NBC launched what it called "the world's first regularly operating television network" on June 27, 1947, serving New York City, Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington. Baltimore and Boston were added to the NBC television network in late 1947.


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The world's first television stations first started appearing in America in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The first mechanical TV station was called W3XK and was created by Charles Francis Jenkins (one of the inventors of the mechanical television). That TV station aired its first broadcast on July 2, 1928.


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According to Nielsen's forthcoming Advertising & Audiences Report, the average U.S. TV home now receives 189 TV channels—a record high and significant jump since 2008, when the average home received 129 channels. Despite this increase, however, consumers have consistently tuned in to an average of just 17 channels.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a self-made millionaire at 22 years old before appearing in his first movie.


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For starring in the 1988 comedy film Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito both agreed to take 20% of the film’s box office take instead of their usual salaries. This resulted in them receiving the biggest paychecks of their movie careers.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to dub over his own voice in the German version of Terminator because his Austrian accent “wasn’t tough enough”


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There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the U.S.—a total of 16,766 including branches.


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Employment of librarians is projected to grow 9 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations. ... Therefore, there will be a continuous need for librarians to manage libraries and help patrons find information.


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The Library Company was officially founded on July 1st, 1731 when Benjamin Franklin and Junto Club members signed the articles of agreement to subscription.
Franklin's goal was to benefit the common people who otherwise would not have access to books.


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Most airlines require attendants to be height-weight proportionate, and they have certain maximum weight allowances depending on height. You must be tall enough to be able to reach the bins above the passengers, but not too tall to have to bend over all the time.


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A flight attendant working in close quarters with passengers is more likely to catch an infectious disease than a lawyer working in an office


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In between flights, the ground crew, not the flight attendants, completes a 'clean sweep' of the cabin, taking out trash, dirty pillows and blankets.


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