The expression "Tying the Knot" comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots.

Robert Southey wrote the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in 1834.

Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.

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