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November 19, 2024 2 mins
Fun Facts of The Day
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shit's the funk. Back to the day. Let's go we
make you look smart. Your body the fu to the day.
I brought in some fun facts and then I walked in.
Nicole sends me a lot of fun facts. She sent
me some really good ones. Yeah, play and kiln our.

(00:22):
She's our pottery gal. She was out there at the
golf tournament. This will be fun to go around the room.
I now know what the world's best selling musical instrument
is and he guesses here, Tessa, guitar, guitar. It's a
good guess. The recorder yet, because you're forced to play.

(00:42):
Fourth grade is when we had to play the third
or fourth grade fourth one of them. Yeah, hell, world's
best selling musical instrument, harmonica. Sometimes hal flexes and we go, oh, yeah,
that's right. He is pretty smart, fella. Yeah, it's really
impressive when someone's like on a guitar piano, then they

(01:05):
just bust out the harmonica too. But yeah, hocket. I
think my drunk grandfather, I think could play, gave us
harmonica's when we were little kids. I still have it,
the little Rita grass. I think maybe that's it. Okay.
Jack Black's mom, Judith loved Cohen. She was an aerospace
engineer who worked on the Hubble telescope. She also co

(01:28):
created the abort guidance system that was used during Apollo
thirteen's mission to bring Tom Hanks home. What sorry, that
was just a movie. The real astronauts Smott super wicked,
smart wicked smot Jack Black's mom. A final fun fact
for you today. I thought this was interesting, Alex. In

(01:50):
nineteen until nineteen sixty six, NBA teams could claim players
who went to college within fifty miles of the arena
before the draft. That's how teams managed to grab up
players including Will Chamberlain Oscar Robinson. Back in the day,
that's neat. It would say fifty miles you take a protractor.
It's like, u uh ah, he plays school right there.

(02:11):
We goned to us, how cool is that? It's the
fun back to the day. We make you look smart
in front of your body's it's the fun that to
the day
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