When was toilet paper invented?
What was Subway originally called and when did it open?
What was the oldest paycheck ?
Episode Transcript
Let's rack out some random facts fortoday. So the National park System covers
about eighty four point six million acres, which seems like a lot, but
it's only about three point four percentof US land Mark Twain and Helen Keller
were friends. They met when shewas a teenager and he was already a
famous author in his fifties, andhe got his rich friends to help pay
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for her to go to college.The oldest paid check that's ever been found
is from about three thousand BC ina city called Urich in the Middle East,
and the person was paid in beer. The first subway sandwich shop was
called Pete's Drive in Super Submarines.It opens back in Bridgeport, Connecticuts in
nineteen sixty five. It was renamedSubway three years later. And toilet paper
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is thought to have first been producedin the late eight hundreds AD in China.
That's a look today at your randomfacts.
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