Everything You Didn't Know About the Rat Pack

Frank and Scooby

Did you know that Scooby-Doo was inspired by Frank Sinatra? The creator of Scooby, Iwao Takamoto, listened to Sinatra's song "Strangers in the Night" and loved the scatting. Sinatra was saying "dooby dooby doo" over and over again, which led Takamoto to name his Great Dane character Scooby-Doo. 

Joey Bishop

Joey Bishop was always known as the "most serious" of the group. He was never outrageous in his jokes like his partners. Ironically, he was the one who came up with most of the comedic material, even the outrageous stuff. He just saved that for the more outrageous characters. 

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The More You Know

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  • The first TV commercial didn't air until the 1940s.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.