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May 12, 2025 55 secs
Which has more Vitamin C - broccoli or orange? 
Has anyone ever really died of "cement shoes"? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that's kind of random. Mel tying for random facts
with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's go ahead today and take a look at your
random facts. So about half of the cereal brands that
come out are discontinued within five years. The fifty six
highest mountains in America are all in four states, Alaska, California, Colorado,
and Washington. There's actually only one documented case in history
of someone being killed with cement shoes, and happened to

(00:29):
May of twenty sixteen, a gang member in Brooklyn washed
up with his legs set in concrete. Before then, it
was completely fictional. Broccoli has almost twice as much vitamin
C as oranges. And astronauts they can vote from space
and not by apps and tee ballot. They vote on
a computer that sends an encrypted message to the county

(00:49):
clerk where they live. That is a look today at
your random facts.
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