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August 30, 2024 53 secs
Are Oreos a knock-off? 
How much money did the guy who invented Lifesavers make off the patent? 
What is the bacteria population on your skin? 
How many people in the United States have worked at a convient store? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I love doing random facts, and I do them just
because it's fun. It is interesting. Sometimes you do learn
a little something. So Oreos are actually a knockoff of
hydrox cookies, not vice versa. Hydrogs debuted in nineteen oh eight.
Oreos debuted in nineteen twelve. Clarence Crane is the guy
who invented a lifesaver candy. He sold the patent for

(00:21):
twenty nine hundred bucks before they got popular, which is crazy.
Can you imagine later on in life you're like, oh
my gosh, or his family even Osama bin Laden's father,
half brother, and half sister all died in different car crashes.
The bacteria population on your skin approximately one cherillion. One

(00:43):
out of every nine Americans has actually worked at a
convenience store, and women didn't start shaving their armpits until
the mid nineteen tens. That is a look today at
your random facts
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