# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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**Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7475 "2023-09-02T11:37:01Z")

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Thanks to this post, TIL where the inspiration came from for the names “Starsky and Hutch.”

> [@S&H Stamps. Anyone remember them from their heyday?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-stamps-anyone-remember-them-from-their-heyday/969427):
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> So anyone here old enough to have collected these stamps back in the 60’s and 70’s? As kids my sister, brothers and I collected them and added them to their books for later use. I see on this Wiki article that it came to the US in 1896. I had no idea. But I saw something a few minutes ago that took me back to the 60’s when the store by my grandmothers home took part in this and we were there a lot. [S&H Green Stamps - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_Green_Stamps#:~:text=The%20S%26H%20Greenpoints%20program%20was,could%20no%20longer%20be%20redeemed).

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