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The Marx Brothers’ real names in order of birth were Leonard (Chico), Adolph (Harpo), Julius Henry (Groucho), Milton (Gummo), and Herbert (Zeppo).
Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969. HIs stage name came from names of actress Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson.
January 5th is Sausage Day in Clitheroe, England–celebrated due to the local love of sausages.
Traditionally, sausage casings were made of the cleaned intestines, or stomachs in the case of haggis and other traditional puddings.
Five presidents have been members of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club: the Adamses, the Roosevelts, and JFK.
BAH.
Blood pudding is actually a sausage. The “pudding” refers to the addition of grains, raisins or currents, and spices often found in dessert puddings.
The origin of the statement “Whoever cares for law or for sausage should never see either being made” was made by Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (the state referred to by the Nazis as “the Second Reich”).
The capital of North Dakota was named after German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in a bid to attract German investment. (The same ruse was used for Otto Von Fargo.)
The Bismarck was one of the most feared German battleships of World War II; the Tirpitz was her sister ship. The British sank them both.
Beat-boxer Biz Markie’s real name is Marcel Theo Hall.
Marcel’s Proust’s “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu” literally means “In Search of Lost Time,” but has usually been translated into English as “Remembrance of Things Past.”
The Moody Blues second album, In Search of the Lost Chord, included the song Legend of a Mind, which is more commonly referred to by its opening lyrics- “Timothy Leary’s dead…”.
The Beatles’ Come Together was originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary in his aborted bid for office.
Billy Preston was considered by many to have been the “fifth Beatle.”
“O Brother Where Art Thou” was a serious movie that a famous comedy director hoped to make, in Preston Sturges’ film “Sullivan’s Travels.”
Veronica Lake, who co-starred in Sullivan’s Travels, was famous for her “peekaboo” hairstyle.
Peekaboo is the name of the mischievous cat in the comic strip “Rose Is Rose.”
Picabo (pronounced “peekaboo”) Street is an American skier who won a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.