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The most famous gag on the 1966 Batman wasn't a gag at all. It was a workaround. Every time Adam West and Burt Ward climbed up a Gotham skyscraper with the Bat-rope, a celebrity would pop out of a window for a quick chat. Fifteen of these cameos happened across 120 episodes. Jerry Lewis, Dick Clark, Sammy Davis Jr., Bruce Lee as Kato, Don Ho, Edward G. Robinson, even Santa Claus and Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes. Here's the secret:

West and Ward weren't climbing anything. They were on the floor of a soundstage, hunched over, walking across a flat-painted backdrop while the camera was tilted ninety degrees on its side. The celebrity stuck their head up through a hole in the floor disguised as a window. Frank Sinatra reportedly begged the producers to let him play the Joker. They told him no.

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This Batman and Robin neon sign is located in Neon Alley in Pueblo, Colorado

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Yvone Craig, as Batgirl, 1966.

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Yvonne Craig, an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman.

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the Mamba Mentality of Kobe Bryant.

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“DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES!” - Today in 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.

Susanna Giovanardi (Italian Tennis)

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a blackbird in flight over snowy mountains seen from above to the front

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a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft

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This scene appears to be from a commercial for Budget Direct, an Australian insurance company. The ad famously features a mischievous dog named Butterscotch.

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This image shows Medal of Honor recipient William Kyle Carpenter. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan in 2010, where he threw himself onto a grenade to save a fellow Marine.

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Tombstone

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Baked Apples {Cinnamon Streusel Topping} - Two Peas & Their Pod

Easy baked apples with cinnamon streusel topping make a great dessert for any fall day. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Creamy Garlic Butter Lobster Tails with Garlic Butter cream sauce

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when women were stronger than strong

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian

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Feisty Pomeranian keeps the peace! 😼