IHC RANDOM FACTS: What was the 1st thing invented to break the sound barrier?

What was the 1st thing invented to break the sound barrier?
What is the raw value of an Oscar?
How big is a giraffe's heart?

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Well that was kind of random.Mel Time for random facts with Mel Taylor
useless information, conversation starters, orjust makes you a little smarter. Smarter,
let's go ahead today and take alook at a random facts. So
the fountains at the Mall of Americain Minneapolis, they collect about twenty five
thousand dollars in coins each year.Now, I don't know how it's been

(00:23):
the last week with COVID because alot of that has not been as busy.
The first thing someone invented that couldbreak the sound barrier was the whip.
Egypt is the most rectangular country inthe world. The US is actually
one hundred and sixty ninth most rectangular. The least rectangular country is the Maldives,
you know, nation of islands outin the Indian Ocean. This is

(00:46):
crazy, but Johnny Carson likes beingalone so much. That is eighty one
million dollar home in Malibu, California, only had one bedroom. That meant
he never had to host guests.While an oscar is an unnamed value to
someone who wins or loses one,the actual trophy has a raw value of
about six hundred bucks, and agiraffe's heart is about two feet long true

(01:07):
story. That's a look today atyour random facts