Here are some random facts for your hopefully long weekend Friday! Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone! Stream live anytime at star1043/listen/ 1. Based on his height and the weight of marshmallows, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters would weigh about 3.87 million pounds. 2. The number of people practicing voodoo in New Orleans dropped 90% after Hurricane Katrina. Mainly because the people who practiced it were black, and had a harder time returning to the city. 3. From 2011 through 2012, China produced more cement than the U.S. did in the entire 20th century. 4. Only five U.S. presidents have had beards, and all five were Republican: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison. 5. A song called Ready n Steady by an artist named D.A. made the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks in June of 1979, meaning it was just on the verge of being a top 100 hit. But ever since then, no ones ever been able to find a copy of the song, or any info about D.A. and some people think the song never existed. (Gizmodo / Society Pages / Financial Times / Constitution Center / Wikipedia)
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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