Jay Silverheels was once the highest paid, highest scoring professional lacrosse player in Canadian history. Who is Jay Silverheels? He is perhaps better known as... The Lone Ranger's former sidekick / best friend (or "kemo sabe") Tonto.
Silverheels may have been pleased to learn that he had landed his role on the hit series. He may have been less pleased to learn that the word "Tonto" means "stupid" in Spanish. And "kemo sabe"? The phrase means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
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M. Driscoll, ed., 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers
