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  • trivia: Frankie Muniz, who played Malcolm in Malcolm in the Middle, has been a professional race driver since the show ended. He started when he won a celebrity race his TV production company (surprisingly) let him drive in. A few years ago there a rumor circulated that he no longer remembers being on the show, due to head injuries from car crashes. But according to him this was a conflation of things he said about getting concussions (mostly from childhood play), and constantly working on the show from about age 8 to 18 without ever actually watching finished episodes.





  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOops
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    7 days ago

    It was was an AE van Vogt story, Far Centaurus. Took me a while to track this down, as all I remembered was the general plot and an orange cover showing a flying astronaut filming a giant sea monster, which I don’t think even happens in the book. Van Vogt originally wrote the short story, about a spaceship on a 500-year voyage to Alpha Centauri with a sleeping crew. They arrive to find Earth people who routinely make the trip in hours using FTL, who decided to let the sleeper ship finish its journey. Van Vogt later combined this story with two others into a novel called Quest for the Future - one of the first Science Fiction Book Club books I bought in high school.