1 | * Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals hold a race every home game featuring five mascots (originally four) in Presidential costumes. Teddy Roosevelt had never won a race in the first six-plus seasons of the races, and the PR people find weird ways of screwing him out of certain victories every now and again. |
2 | ** Finally subverted just one day after the Nationals clinched their first National League East title on October 3, 2012 as Teddy got his first win after 6 seasons and over ''500 races.'' After getting official support from ''both major political parties''. |
3 | * There is a tongue-in-cheek "secret society" of journalists called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Occult_Hand The Order of the Occult Hand]] who slipped the phrase "It was as if an occult hand had..." into their writing as an InJoke. After the joke was revealed, they picked (in 2006) a new secret phrase. |
4 | * Whenever ''Creator/PennAndTeller'' does the PickACard-routine, ít is always the Three of Clubs. |
5 | * Anime voice actor Creator/KikukoInoue often likes to say (in interviews, public appearances, and in some of her roles) that she's "17 years old".[[note]]She was born in 1964[[/note]] |
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