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Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

This is an urban legend

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we have a citation please?

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

From what I can tell,every account that people have cited as evidence for Charlie Chaplin losing a look a like contest are anecdotal and cant be verified.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9423/did-charlie-chaplin-lose-a-charlie-chaplin-look-alike-contest

[–] euchriduk@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

But Dolly Parton really did lose in a Dolly Parton lookalike contest - and the winner was a drag artist (pretty sure it was a drag competition, and Dolly entered it for a laugh).