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musical based on their music. Benny Andersson shows up as a piano-playing fisherman during “Dancing Queen”; Björn Ulvaeus appears at the end dressed as a Greek god.
    ON GOLDEN POND (1981)
    I Spy... Spencer Tracy’s hat
    Where to Find It: On Henry Fonda’s head. The fishing cap that he wore in the film (his last) was a gift from co-star Katharine Hepburn. It was the first time the two legends had worked together. Spencer Tracy, who’d died in 1967, was Hepburn’s longtime lover. On the first day of filming On Golden Pond , Hepburn told Fonda that she wanted him to have “Spencer’s lucky hat.”
    TRUE GRIT (2010)
    I Spy... the Boston Red Sox logo
    Where to Find It: On Matt Damon’s head. He tries to work in a nod to his favorite team in all his movies. But how could he do that in a Western set 20 years before the Sox formed? In the two buckles on his cowboy hat—they form the familiar Red Sox “B.”
It takes 5 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water.
    ROCKY BALBOA (2006)
    I Spy... Sylvester Stallone
    Where to Find Him: Ringside. Background footage from real boxing matches was used for the climactic fight scene. Stallone—who wrote, directed, and starred in the film—had attended one of those fights. If you look closely you can spot him watching his fictional alter-ego battle it out in the ring.
    PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987)
    I Spy... the airplane from Airplane!
    Where to Find It: In the exterior shot of the passenger jet where Steve Martin and John Candy meet. In a nod to the classic comedy film, director John Hughes used the same footage from the 1980 disaster spoof.
    1408 (2007)
    I Spy... a famous axe
    Where to Find It: In a fireman’s hands. In Stephen King’s story about a malevolent hotel room, a firefighter uses an axe to break down a door. It’s the same axe used in 1980’s The Shining (another King story about an evil hotel), with which Jack Nicholson tried to kill his family after yelling, “Heeere’s Johnny!” (Both films were made at London’s Elstree Studios, where the axe lived in a prop closet.)
    APOCALYPTO (2006)
    I Spy... Waldo
    Where to Find Him: In a pile of corpses. Remember the Where’s Waldo picture-book series in which Waldo’s tiny image is hidden among hundreds of other people? For some reason, in Apocalypto , a bloody epic about the final days of the Mayan civilization, director Mel Gibson inserted a single frame of a real man dressed like Waldo—blue jeans, red-and-white striped shirt, and red cap. (He appeared only in the theatrical release; Gibson took him out of the DVD version.)
T-ant-T? Some species of ants explode when attacked.

FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
Lots of cities are named after people, but sometimes who those people were gets lost to history .
    B URBANK, CALIFORNIA
Home to many TV networks and TV studios (most famously the “beautiful downtown Burbank” where Johnny Carson made The Tonight Show ), the former Spanish ranch land was incorporated in 1887. The town began as 4,600 acres purchased by David Burbank, a dentist from New Hampshire.
    LARAMIE, WYOMING
    Wyoming conjures up images of plains and cowboys, but the state’s third-largest city was named after a French-Canadian fur trapper. Jacques La Ramée settled there in 1815. In 1821 he went on a trapping expedition and disappeared. He’s believed to have been killed by the Arapaho, but evidence was never found. Nevertheless, he was such an economic influence that the village he lived in and the nearby Laramie River were named after him.
    RENO, NEVADA
    Jessie Reno was a war hero in both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, where he served as a general in the Union army, and died at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. Reno was from Virginia, but he was such a popular military figure that a number of emerging towns were named after him, including Reno, Pennsylvania; El Reno, Oklahoma; and Reno, Nevada.
    SEDONA, ARIZONA
    In the American West, towns were often “put on the map” when