- All those sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on his TV show? They were knitted by his mother!
- 90% of all American paper currency has trace amounts of cocaine on it. Yuck!
- If The Simpsons is the longest-running cartoon series on TV, what is #2? It’s the kids’ cartoon show, Arthur, with 21 seasons.
- The songwriting team of Styne & Cahn wrote the Christmas jingle, “Let it Snow”, during the hottest day in July of 1945.
- The clock on your microwave uses more power than it does to cook your food.
- Pedro Lascuráin Paredes served as the 34th President of Mexico for less than an hour before he was overthrown.
- The famous Egyptian ruler Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian. She was from Greece.
- In 2015 a pigeon was arrested in India for being a Pakistan spy and held in custody. I’m not kidding!
- What was the first-ever televised male interracial kiss? It was Bill Murray and Walter Peyton on SNL!
- In Sebastapol, Ca. it’s a crime to use a nuclear weapon in town. Sentence? Six months in jail!
- Wolfang Amadeus Mozart composed a complete opera in three hours while being hungover from a previous night’s drunken party.
- In the movie, The Godfather, that cat on Marlon Brando’s lap was stray kitty he found on the set and took a liking to.
……and now you’re a little bit smarter!
