Ringling Brothers facts
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Steve-O was a clown and graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
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Baraboo, Wisconsin was host to the first Ringling Brothers Circus in 1884.
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Mabel Stark was a Tiger tamer with Ringling Brothers Circus for 57 years. She survived being mauled many times, once requiring 378 stitches, but always returned to the ring, blaming herself or other factors, but never the tigers.
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Ringling Brothers Circus headlined a living "unicorn" named Lancelot in the mid 80's.
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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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There is a memorial to three dead Ringling Brothers Circus workers in SE North Dakota.
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About the Muse Brothers—kidnapped by the Ringling Brothers’ “talent scouts” in 1889 and found by their mother in 1927. The Muses were kept as slaves and used in promotion of the Virginia Eugenics Movement which was an inspiration for Nazi eugenic programs. The Muse matriarch sues and won $100k.
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Topsy—a camel in 1850s Texas used for road building and silver mining until the end of the Civil War. From there, she went on to perform in the Ringling Brothers’ circus, street parades, and several early films before her humps were badly injured in a train wreck and she retired to a zoo.
