FACTS

Redondo beach, CA adopted the good year blimp as the city official bird in 1983

In 2001, beaver college changed its name to arcadia in part because anti-porn filters blocked access to the school website.

Peeps lips balm is something that exists.

Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on the golden girls.

Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas dropped out of high school but picked up his GED in 1993. His GED class voted him most likely to succeed.

Sleeping through winter is hibernation while sleeping through summer is estivation.

In Spain, Mr. clean is known as don Limpio.

In Qaddafi’s compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with picture of Condoleeza rice.

Reed hastings was inspired to start Netflix after racking up a $40 Kate on a VHS copy Apollo 13.

Marrie Currie notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign s disclaimer.

Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All.

When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.

Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000.

In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zap ruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know. But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.

Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone."

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.