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It was around 6:30 on a typical spring Sunday evening in Edwardsville, Ill., when who should waltz into the local Dairy Queen® restaurant but late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien. According to DQ® employees who were working at the time, the variety show host was wearing a blue shirt, tie and suit jacket, and was with four or five other casually dressed men, who were thought to be the camera crew. After the staff determined that it was in fact O’Brien, two of the employees who had cameras with them asked O’Brien if he would pose for a photo.

Employees say O’Brien was really nice and friendly, and he even asked them if they wanted a group shot or individual shots. They opted for the group shot to ensure that they would get a photo with the celebrity in case the restaurant got busy.

After the photo op, O’Brien ordered a banana split—hold the pineapple—and hung out at the restaurant for half an hour before taking off with his crew in an unmarked van. They were believed to be on their way to shoot footage in nearby cornfields for a segment for O’Brien’s new gig as host of “The Tonight Show,” which he took over from Jay Leno on June 1. That segment ran during the first episode and featured O’Brien running from his old studio in New York City across America to his new studio in Los Angeles. While running, O’Brien stopped by the St. Louis Gateway Arch, which was where he had been filming before stopping in for a DQ treat. Edwardsville is about a 25 minute drive from the Arch.

Here are some other famous faces that have appeard in DQ locations over the years:

Actor Tom Cruise (center) became a regular customer at the Lexington, Va., DQ restaurant in 2004 when he was filming the Steven Spielberg movie “War of the Worlds.”

Former President Bill Clinton visited the Flemingsburg, Ky., DQ restaurant in March 2008. Nearly 400 people greeted him upon his arrival, and he gave autographs and shook hands with most of the people at the restaurant. He even tried his hand at making a DQ cone!

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (center) actually rented out a Kirkland, Wash., DQ restaurant for 45 minutes in December 2007 to hold a mock business meeting that was being filmed for a documentary.

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And although David Letterman didn’t actually stop at a DQ restaurant, he asked Andy Pettitte if he was running a DQ while not playing with the Yankees when the World Series champ stopped by “The Late Show” with fellow teammates Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada.

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