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[33 IMP]

Amabel Ethelreid Normand is credited as being the first film star to receive a pie thrown in the face.

Known as Mabel. Great comedienne, scandal strewn life, died too young too.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

1968 "Classic Gasoline"


"Classical Gas" is an instrumental musical piece composed and originally performed by Mason Williams with instrumental backing by members of the Wrecking Crew. Originally named "Classical Gasoline", the tune was envisioned to be "fuel" for the classical guitar repertoire.Williams was the head writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time of the piece's release and premiered the composition on the show. Williams performed it several times over several episodes.

 

[DeltaV]

A Corned Beef Sandwich Was Smuggled Into Space​

Astronaut food is the stuff of science — often heavily processed to give it the chance to hold up in space, and sometimes looking less than appetizing. That’s why one astronaut packed his own sandwich and jetted off into space with it. In 1965, NASA pilot John Young hid a corned beef sandwich in his spacesuit pocket prior to the launch of the Gemini III. Nearly halfway through the five-hour flight, Young pulled out the sandwich and offered a bite to mission commander Gus Grissom, though the unfinished sandwich was stowed away after breadcrumbs began to make a mess. Young was reprimanded once back on Earth, and a congressional inquiry took place. A resin-preserved replica of the sandwich now sits at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana.