Renovations In a Comedy Club Uncover Incredible Lost History

Closing Its Doors

In 1928, the theater closed its doors, which happened quite often throughout the next few decades of its existence. It reopened and closed many times under different owners. It even went through different eras of business in an attempt to keep up with the trends. It finally settled as a comedy club after it was reopened in the 2000s.

The More You Know

The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
Earth is not as round as you thought.
The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.

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