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April 26, 2024 1 min
Which is the only movie to get an Oscar & A Razzie Award? 
Why was the chain saw made? 
When did people start using credit cards? 
Who originally was given the song "Baby, Hit Me One More Time?" 
What was the 1st product to get a bar code? 
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(00:00):
Well that was kind of random.Mel dined for Random Facts with Mel Taylor.
Wallstreet is the only movie that's whenan Oscar in a razzie, So
Michael Douglas won the Best Actor Oscarand Daryl Hannah for the Worst Supporting Actress
Razzi. The first product to usea UPC symbol with a barcode was a
pack of juicy fruit gum. Thatwas nineteen seventy four and it's actually now

(00:24):
in the Smithsonian. The biggest temperaturechange over a twenty four hour period in
history ever happened on January fifteenth,nineteen seventy two, in Loma, Montana,
so the temperature jumped from negative fiftyfour degrees all the way to forty
nine degrees. It's like one hundredand three degrees swing. The chainsaw was
originally invented by a German orthopedic surgeon. It was eighteen thirty to cut bones

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and people's jaws, but eventually abigger model was created to cut wood and
Diner's Club issue the first ever creditcards in nineteen fifty. Should also mention
baby One More Time was originally offeredto the group TLC. They turned it
down, so it went to Britneyspears as her debut single That's A put
her on the map
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