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Weird Al Yankovic's "Jurassic Park" was enjoyed so much by "MacArthur Park" singer Jimmy Webb, he sent Al a rubber dinosaur mask in the mail as a Christmas gift

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Hundreds of firearms have been found by draining the lake in MacArthur Park.

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1. The song MacArthur Park, the 1968 chart topper about someone leaving the cake out in the rain, was recorded by Richard Harris, the actor who played Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies.

2. Academy Award winning actor Richard Harris also sang the popular song from the late 60's titled "MacArthur Park". It reached number 2 on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968.

3. Songwriter Jimmy Webb couldn't find any vocalists to sing his "Macarthur Park" single, so he got his friend Richard Harris to do it. You probably know Harris as the first Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films or perhaps Marcus Aurelius from "Gladiator".

4. The actor who played Dumbledore in the first Harry Potter movie is the same man who recorded and sang the epic (and often parodied) song "MacArthur Park": Richard Harris.

5. Richard Harris, the man who played Dumbledore in the first two HP movies, recorded the original version of MacArthur Park, the inspiration for one of my favorite Weird Al parodies, Jurassic Park.

6. The song "MacArthur Park" was written about the scene around the breakup between songwriter Jimmy Webb and his girlfriend. This breakup also led him to write "By the Time I Get to Phoenix."

7. Richard Harris, AKA the original Professor Dumbledore, once had a gold record that would rival the Beatles and won a Grammy Award. He was the first to record the song "MacArthur Park" in 1968, later made famous by Waylon Jennings and Donna Summer.