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The band 'Duran Duran' got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie 'Barbarella.'
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Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
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Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs' bladders were used as rugby balls.
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Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
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Samuel Clemens's pseudonym 'Mark Twain' was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase 'mark twain' from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
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