RANDOM FACTS: When was the 1st ever cell phone?

Was there ever a Brontosaurus?
What does Xmas stand for?
How did the idea of Pokemon come to be?

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So in nineteen nineteen, a wave of molasses actually rushed
through the streets.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Of Boston, killed twenty one people and injured one hundred
and fifty people.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
The Brontosaurus never existed. There is a common myth that
the word Christmas started out as a way to deemphasize,
you know, religious tradition, as in taking the Christ out
of Christmas, but the term actually dates back to Christian
churches in the sixteenth century. The exumary Christmas is the
Greek letter Kai, which is abbreviation for Christ in Greek,

(00:35):
so it just worked. The guy who invented Pokemont got
the idea for a game where he collected rare monsters
because he collected bugs as a kid. And the first
ever cell phone call was placed on April third, nineteen
seventy three, when one of the engineers at Motorola who
built the phone walked out into the streets and called
a competitor at at and T to brag.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
That is a look today as your a random facts