Random Facts: Are there more trees on Earth or Stars in the Milky Way?

Random Facts: Are there more trees on Earth or Stars in the Milky Way? 

Episode Transcript

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Well that was kind of random.Mel time for random facts with Mel Taylor,
useless information, conversation starters, orjust makes you a little smarter.
Smarter. There are more trees onEarth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Scotland has over four hundred words forsnow. That's a lot. The

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tiny, impossible to use little handleson maple syrup bottles are called skewomrph,
which is a design element that helpsyou recognize what something is, even if
it doesn't have a purpose beyond that. So the tiny handles have been added
for almost one hundred years to referenceold stoneware jugs that maple syrup used to
be stored in. These jugs athandles large enough though for you to actually

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handle them. I always wonder whatthose little things are for. Most snails
have both male and female genitalia,so they can quickly and easily mate with
basically any other snail. And BestBuy was originally called Sound of Music.
They launched night sixty six and thename wasn't changed to best Buy until nineteen
eighty three. That's a look todayat your ransom facts.