Five Random Facts from Rodeo Rick

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Here are five random facts to help you get through your day, or that you can use to impress your friends - or not...Here are today's five random facts:

1.  Americans will eat 1.25 billion chicken wings during the Super Bowl this year.

2.  It would take about 5 million house flies to lift you up off the ground and help YOU fly away.  It would take about 437,000 bees . . . 65,000 butterflies . . . 11,000 hummingbirds . . . 441 pigeons . . . or 16 bald eagles.

3. Clarence Crane, the guy who invented Life Savers candy, sold the patent for $2,900 before they got popular.  His son, Hart Crane, was a famous American poet who ended up committing suicide . . . by jumping off a boat.

4.  "Goodbye" is actually a shortened version of the phrase "God be with you."

5.  Oreos are a knockoff of Hydrox cookies, NOT vice versa.  Hydrox debuted in 1908, Oreo debuted in 1912.

(PR Newswire / The Straight Dope / Wikipedia / Wiktionary / Wikipedia)

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