Random Facts: How much skin do you shed by the age of 70?

Where is the shortest commercial flight? 
How much skin do you shed by the age of 70?
What was Beverly Hills, CA named after?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel Time for Random
Facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Bob Marley gave a songwriting credits on No Woman, No
Cry to a guy named Vincent Ford actuallyran a soup
kitchen in Jamaica and it was his way of making
sure that it would be funded forever, which is pretty amazing.
By age seventy, your body has shed one hundred and
five pounds of skin. The world's shortest commercial flight is
between two islands in northern Scotland. The flight's one point

(00:27):
seven miles. Official time two minutes, but it takes close
to the forty seven seconds. Beverly Hills was named after
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, which was named after Beverly, Yorkshire, England,
and that town was named in seven hundred AD because
of a colony of beavers, so Beverly Hills is named
after medieval English beavers. And Pablo Escobar was on the

(00:49):
first Forbes Billionaire's List in nineteen eighty seven thanks to
the three billion he'd made from his cocaine empire. He
also made the list for the next seven years, right
up until he was killed in nineteen ninety three. That's
a look today at your random facts.