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

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Don Knotts appeared in 1968 film The Shakiest Gun in the West. He plays Dr. Jesse Heywood, a dental school graduate in Philadelphia in 1870 who goes out west to become a dentist on the frontier. Knotts’ performance did well with audiences.

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The More You Know

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  • Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
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