Here are some random facts for you.
1. Roadkill is legal to take in every U.S. state, except Texas. Many states have various roadkill rules and restrictions, but in Texas it’s outright prohibited.
2. All button mushrooms used to be brown until 1926, when a mushroom farmer in Pennsylvania found a cluster of white buttons growing in his beds. He cloned them and began selling them as a new variety.
3. R. Kelly is afraid of flying, and would INSIST on traveling by bus, even though one of his biggest hits ever is “I Believe I Can Fly”. (He doesn’t have to worry about that now. He’s serving a 30-year prison sentence on multiple racketeering and sex trafficking convictions. But a few years back, while awaiting trial, he was held in custody for years, because they considered him a “flight risk.”)
4. A “Calvin and Hobbes” fan calculated the dollar value of all the damage Calvin caused over the course of the comic strip. It comes out to $15,955.50.
5. Popeyes Chicken is named after Gene Hackman’s character Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in “The French Connection”, not after the cartoon character Popeye.
(Roadkill Art / MSSF / Times Live / IGN / Wikipedia)
