Everything You Didn't Know About the Rat Pack

Frank and Scooby

Did you know that Scooby-Doo was inspired by Frank Sinatra? The creator of Scooby, Iwao Takamoto, listened to Sinatra's song "Strangers in the Night" and loved the scatting. Sinatra was saying "dooby dooby doo" over and over again, which led Takamoto to name his Great Dane character Scooby-Doo. 

Joey Bishop

Joey Bishop was always known as the "most serious" of the group. He was never outrageous in his jokes like his partners. Ironically, he was the one who came up with most of the comedic material, even the outrageous stuff. He just saved that for the more outrageous characters. 

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The More You Know

  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • If you sneeze while driving at 60 mph, your eyes are closed for around 50 feet.
  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.