Five Things You Need To Know: Fun Facts For 9-4-20

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Five Things You Need To Know For Friday, September 4th, 2020:

1.  Pufferfish inflate by sucking in water, not air.

2.  Buzz Lightyear's original name was Lunar Larry.

3.  Stan Lee served in the Army during World War Two . . . as an official Army PLAYWRIGHT.  Dr. Seuss also served as a playwright with him.  They created pamphlets for soldiers about how to avoid getting VD.

4.  The guy who invented the board game Guess Who? was friends with Anne Frank in elementary school in Amsterdam.

5.  The main character in the "Wizard of Oz" was originally going to be a boy, but L. Frank Baum's niece Dorothy died as he was working on the book and he changed the character to a girl.