Five Random Facts from Rodeo Rick

  1.  This is NOT going to be a surprise to anyone who's stepped outside this month . . . but January is the coldest month in the U.S. of the past CENTURY.  Four of the 10 coldest days in the past 100 years have occurred this month.

2.  A study found strippers who are ovulating make about $15 per hour more than strippers who are in other parts of their cycles.

3.  There are craters in North Dakota, Quebec, France, and the Ukraine that were all caused at the same time by fragments of the same asteroid about 215.5 million years ago.

4.  If you make at least $21,000-a-year, you're part of the richest 4% of the world.

5.  SpongeBob SquarePants was supposed to be named SpongeBoy and the show would be called "SpongeBoy Ahoy!"  But it turned out someone already owned a trademark on a character called SpongeBoy, so it changed to SpongeBob.

(Bloomberg / New York Times / Alzakera / BBC / Cartoonician)