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August 2, 2024 1 min
Why is bubble gum pink? 
How do you weld in space? 
How did Richard Nixon get into politics? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random mel tying for random
facts with mel Taylor first.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
In space, you actually don't need welding materials to get
to medals to fuse. They will do it on their
own if you can place them close enough together. Only
four people in American history have won a presidential election
as a sitting vice president, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin
Van Buren, and George H. W.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Bush.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Bubblegum is pink because as the only color of food
coloring that the inventor actually had available.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
This I thought trippy.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The inventor of the children's ball pit got the idea,
he said, when he was looking at pickled onions splitting
in a jar and thought about what it'd be like.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
To try and crawl through them.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, And Richard Nixon got into politics by actually
answering a classified ad.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
There was a group of Republicans in California.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
They took out an ad looking for someone new to
back in a congressional election. Nixon responded and won the election.
That's a look at ran in facts.
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