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Where rock stars go to die

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) and "Mama" Cass Elliot (of the Mamas & the Papas) died in the same apartment – flat No. 12 on the top floor of building No. 9 in Curzon Place, Mayfair, London.

According to one Hebrew linguist, "Suri" means "a person from Syria" and "go away" when addressed to a female.

In most people, the id (impulse) is held in check by the superego (societal rules) while the ego (in between) mediates between the two.

In 1775, it was Israel Bissell who traveled 350 miles from Boston to Philadelphia to warn, "The British are coming." Paul Revere only went 19 miles from Boston to Cambridge. (Thanks a lot, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)

The idea that people are supposed to hold a rose in their mouths while dancing the tango is completely made up by Hollywood.
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