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February 28, 2024 • 1 min
What is the animal of Scotland?
What was the 1st book sold on Amazon?
How many people in the world are over 6ft?
What was Barney going to be before a dinosaur?
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Well, that was kind of random. Mel dying for random facts with Mel
Taylor. Let's do those random factsfor the day. How about the first
book ever sold on Amazon was abook abouts artificial intelligence. It was called
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Someonebought it's in July of nineteen ninety five.
Less than fifteen percent of men inthe United States are six feet tall

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or taller only fifteen percent. Lessthan four percent are at least a six
foot two. In the NBA,eighty seven percent of the players are taller
than six foot two. Not jokesgot popular in the nineteen thirties when a
guy named Alf Landon was running forpresidents against FDR. He picked his former
Army colonel named Frank Knox as hisVP candidates, and knock knock jokes about

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him became a huge hit, andthat's where they started. Barniey the dinosaur
was originally going to be a talkingblankets, okay, and then a teddy
bear came along and it was goingto be a teddy bear, but then
eventually he became a dinosaur. Andthe national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
That is a look today. Addshirt random facts
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