Ran Facts : What is the Animal of Scotland?

Episode Transcript

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Well, that was kind of random. Mel tying for random facts with mel
Taylor. John Quincy Adams was actuallythe first president with a middle name,
and none of the five presidents beforehim had one. Marvin Gaye's real name
was Gay without an E at theend. He actually added the e early
in his career when there were questionsabout his sexuality. Tara cards were originally

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invented in Europe in the fourteen hundreds. It was just a regular card game.
Fortune tellers didn't start using them untilthe late seventeen hundreds. About the
national animal of Scotland is the unicornOxford University. Pretty crazy, but it
is older than the Aztec Empire.And German chocolate cake has nothing to do

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with Germany. It was named afteran English American person, Samuel Jerman,
who developed a formulation of dark bakingchocolate that came to be used in the
cake recipe. That's it was notGerman. That's my favorite cake, by
the way.