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April 16, 2025 1 min
Does Greenland or Iceland have more ICE? 
Why did DJ Jazzy Jeff wear the same outfit on The Fresh Price of Bel-Air?
Why was tiramisu invented? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel Time for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ancient nineteen hundred eight year old scrolls revealed that Imperial
Rome did not mess around with tax cheets. I mean,
if you committed tax fraud, you could be sentenced to
public execution where you would be eaten alive by leopards.
That's intense. Greenland is icier than Iceland. Every time Djay

(00:28):
Jazzy Jeff was on the Fresh Prince of bel Air,
he wore the same outfit so that they could reuse
the footage of him getting thrown out the front door
by Uncle Phil and not risk him getting hurt if
they filmed it again. Did you know that tira massou
was invented in Italian brothels because they believed it was
an aphrodisiac and about forty one hundred dollars where at

(00:49):
the loose change is thrown into the Trevy Fountain in Rome, Italy,
each and every day, at least during you know, the
big normal tourist time. That's like one point five million
dollars a year. That is a look today at your
random facts
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