Here are some random facts for you.
1. Rick James only won one Grammy, and it was for his co-writing credit on “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer.
2. The Cap’n Crunch character was created by a guy named Allan Burns. He also worked on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”, and co-created “The Munsters” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. He passed away in 2021.
3. The word “phony” comes from “telephone”, since early phones had such bad audio quality, it made people’s voices sound fake.
4. Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population lives within 100 miles of one of the country’s borders, including coastal boundaries, like the oceans and Great Lakes.
5. (And) roughly two-thirds of Canadians live within 100 kilometers (which is 62 miles) of the U.S. border. More than 80% live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
(Wikipedia / Cartoon Brew / Popular Mechanics / ACLU / Geocurrents)
