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The 1900 Olympics featured a live pigeon shooting event. The winner bagged 21 pigeons.

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)