Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Fuck that to the day. We make you look smart
and funny.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Your body is this the fuck that to the day.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay, got some fun facts for you today.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The first ever comic book convention was in New York
in nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow, I had no idea that these cons have been
going on that long.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The very first person to buy a ticket to that
convention was sixteen year old George R. R.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones books.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean that guy nerds nerd from Jump Yeah, okay,
he was a nerd like lived up to it.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, I worked out.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You got any Nichols in your pocket, there's a good
chance you don't have meny Nichols in your pocket.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Not today.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
More Nichols were made in nineteen sixty four than any
other year.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
That is, for some reason.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right around that time, people were hoarding them because they
mistakenly thought they were made with silver. So the US
Mint had to increase their production because there was none
on the streets. So about three billion nickels wound up
being made. And that's why there's a good chance if
you have a nickel land around it's from nineteen sixty four.
That's why they call it the Great Nickel Shortage of
nineteen sixty four, if you ever had that in school.

(01:24):
Now we know why they've called it that.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's neat. I've never flown here.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
We could use Dinah right now for lots of things,
but specifically Savannah hilton Head.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
She lived there. Yeah, she lived in hilton Head.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So if you're a nervous flyer, I don't know how
you'd feel about this.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
The Savannah hilton Head International Airport.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
In Georgia has two graves embedded in the runway.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
That's neat. I wonder if she knew this. Two other
graves are next to it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
The land was previously a private family cemetery. They left
the bodies in the ground and put a runway on
top of them.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's bad luck.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
What it's the FuG back to the day.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We make you look smart in front of your bodies.
It's the funk, back to the day.