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TIL that Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical novel, “Cat’s Cradle”, was accepted by the University of Chicago as a thesis in 1971 and awarded him a master’s degree in anthropology. The University had turned down his original thesis in 1947, rejecting it as “unprofessional”; “No damn cat, and no damn cradle”
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TIL Dolph Lundgren has a degree in Chemical Engineering from KTH Sweden, a Masters from Univ. of Sydney. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT when his boss and GF, singer Grace Jones, convinced him to move to NYC where he worked as model, bouncer before his debut in A View to a Kill.
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TIL that sportscaster Jack Whitaker was banned from The Masters for six years after referring to fans as a “mob”. Spectators at The Masters are referred to as “patrons”. Augusta president Clifford Roberts said “We don’t have mobs at Augusta” and demanded that CBS remove Whitaker from the broadcast.
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