Barnum Bailey facts
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Steve-O was a clown and graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
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Barnum and Bailey’s circus was so logistically efficient that prior to WWI the U.S. War Department would periodically send army officers to travel with them and study their transportation methods in order to improve the logistics of the army’s own artillery service (Davis, 2003, p. 78).
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Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus has retired all but 11 elephants and will retire those 11 after a final show May 1st, 2016. The elephants will go to a Florida conservation where they help with cancer research, as they possess a special "P53 gene" which fights cancer.
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PETA founder, Ingrid Newkirk, has stipulated in her last will that meat from her body be used for a human BBQ, some of her skin be used to make leather products and her severed, pointing finger be sent to the owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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The ashes of Jumbo the Elephant (From Barnum & Bailey Circus) are kept in a Peter Pan's Crunchy Peanut Butter jar
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Jackass performer Steve-O is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
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Late actor and comedian Charles Nelson Reilly survived the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, which claimed the lives of 167 and injured 700+ at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performance
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Today was the last ever performance for Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Steve-O attended Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, which at the time had a lower acceptance rate than Stanford or Harvard
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P.T. Barnum (of Barnum & Bailey's Circus) exploited an anti-slavery law loophole in New York to lease a blind and nearly-paralyzed slave, and present her as George Washington's 161-year-old nurse.
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PT Barnum's (of Ringling and Barnum and Bailey's Circus) entertainment career began by showcasing a enslaved "161 year-old woman"
