Here are some random facts for you.
1. “Bank of America” was actually founded as the Bank of Italy in 1904.
2. No one knows for sure when the fire hydrant was invented, because the patent was lost in a fire at the U.S. patent office in 1836.
3. The person who gets credit for pushing Canada’s universal health care is Tommy Douglas, a former Premier from Saskatchewan and Kiefer Sutherland’s grandfather.
4. Amazon named one of its buildings in Seattle after its first customer. He’s a software engineer named John Wainwright who bought a computer book for $27.95 in 1995.
5. Blink 182 released their album “California” on July 1st, 2016, because that’s the 182nd day of the year. Except they forgot it was a leap year, so it turned out to be the 183rd day.
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