Snapshot · The Daily
Mason Locke Weems invented the famous story of young George Washington confessing to chopping down a cherry tree in an 1800 biography — there is no evidence it ever happened.
Juan Pujol García built a network of 27 entirely fictional sub-agents that Nazi Germany believed were real British spies, cementing his status as WWII's most valuable double agent.
Juan Pujol García is the only person known to have received both the Iron Cross from Hitler and an MBE from the British Crown — awarded by two warring nations simultaneously.
LaFontaine's voiceover career began by accident in 1965 when a scheduled voice actor didn't show, and he stepped in to record radio spots for MGM's 'Gunfighters of Casa Grande'.
LaFontaine is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the legendary LA burial ground previously covered in its own Stuff You Should Know episode.
LaFontaine's path to Hollywood began in 1962 when he partnered with radio producer Floyd Peterson, who was creating radio promos for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
Dax notes that when Rockefeller became a billionaire, he reportedly controlled 15 cents of every dollar in the US economy — far greater wealth concentration than today's billionaires.
Khanna noted that the last time a US congressman was detained or shot at abroad was in 1978, when Leo Ryan was killed at Jonestown in Guyana.
The US government did not formally acknowledge the existence or location of Area 51 until 2013, decades after it was established.
The U-2 spy plane could reach altitudes of 70,000 feet — 13 miles high — enabling it to photograph enemy territory while flying above most Soviet surface-to-air missiles.
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