There Was More to Comedy Legend Don Knotts Than Anyone Ever Knew

Hollywood Squares

Knotts was a guest on the “Hollywood Squares” television game show four separate times. Although the show was once one of the most popular, it since has fallen off the charts in favor of game shows like “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

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The More You Know

  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • The magnetic North Pole is moving.
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