Random Facts - Why was the chainsaw created?

Why was the chainsaw created? How did paypal start? What was the last Ivy League to accept women and what year? How many calories are really in a tic tac?

Episode Transcript

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Less. Are your random facts forthe day. I got some good ones.
So first up, the chainsaw wasoriginally created to aid in birth child's
birth. Yes, true, thinglike cut open the pelvis if needed.
Geckos can turn the stickiness of theirfeets on and off at will, which
I thought was actually pretty cool.Blood donors in Sweden get a thank you

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text when their blood is used.I don't know, I thought that was
kind of cool too. Tic TACsare almost pure sugar, but since each
one has got less than zero pointfive grams, they're legally allowed to round
down and say they're sugar free.But then you think, like, how
many am I eating? Columbia wasthe last Ivy League school to accept women.
Crazy, not that long ago,it was nineteen eighty three. Nintendo

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has existed as a company since eighteeneighty nine. They were selling I think,
like playing cards or something. AndPayPal was originally part of a company
called Confinity that made security software.But then they realized this is money transferring
thing, That's what money is,So then after two years, that's what
they decided to do. That's alook today, it's your random facts