Random Facts - How did Eminem get his name?

How did Eminem get his name? 
Just how old is the oldest newspaper? 
How many calories in a human? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random mel tying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So Eminem calls himself Eminem because Eminem's, like the Candy,
are the initials of his real name, Marshall Mathers, who
was required to spell it out when he signed a
record deal so he did not get sued by Eminem's
New Jersey is the only state to have never named
an official state song, while Tennessee they've got twelve, which
I thought was crazy. If you ate an entire human being,

(00:29):
you take down approximately eighty one thousand, five hundred calories
enough to survive at least for a few months. The
oldest newspaper still running is Barrows Worcester Journal. It's in England,
but it's started in sixteen ninety. Isn't that crazy. Alligators
they go through a pseudo hibernation in the winter and
they keep their noses above the surface of the water

(00:50):
so that if they freeze, they can actually still breathe.
And Miracle on thirty four Street was released in June
of nineteen forty seven, not Christmas, even though it's Christmas movie.
The head of the studio thought that people saw movies
more during the summer. That's look at your random facts
for the day,