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. Snickers are named after the Mars family's favorite horse.

2. The guy who invented the "upside-down" ketchup bottles with the opening at the bottom instead of the top sold his company to Heinz in 1995 for $13 million.

3. You're more likely to be stung by a bee if you're eating a banana. The chemical compound that gives bananas their taste also works as a pheromone that makes bees angry.

4. Pretzels got their shape when French and Italian monks baked bread in the 7th century, and tried to resemble the shape of arms in prayer.

5. PHIL ROBERTSON of "Duck Dynasty" played quarterback at Louisiana Tech University in the late '60s. He left school early to focus on duck hunting, which opened up the spot for the backup quarterback . . . TERRY BRADSHAW.

(CNN / Seattle Times / Asian Correspondent / Google Books / Sports Illustrated)

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