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The surname of comic strip character Dennis the Menace was Mitchell.
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Don McLean’s 1971 album American Pie was dedicated to Buddy Holly.
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Mark Twain, US author, called a cauliflower “a cabbage with a college education”.
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Charlie Parker, US jazz saxophonist, was nicknamed Bird.
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The longest river entirely within Wales is the River Towy.
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The patron saint of musicians is St Cecilia.
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In the Australian television series Number 96, the delicatessen was inherited by Arnold Feather – played by Jeff Kevin – after the death of Aldo Godolfus.
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The highest mountain in Canada is Mt Logan was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park and Reserve in south-western Yukon.
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In The Brady Bunch, Alice’s boyfriend was Sam Franklin.
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Robert de Niro portrayed the famous boxer Jake La Motta in the 1980 movie Raging Bull biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.
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