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October 22, 2024 59 secs
Did Nasa ever have Pageants? 
What is the only city in the United States north of a Canadian city? 
What game show did John McCain participate in before he went to war?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel dying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I got some very simple ones. Detroit, Michigan is the
only city in the US that lies directly north of
a city in Canada, which is Windsor, Ontario. Just sort
of like curls up underneath there, which is interesting. I
had to go look that one up. In nineteen sixty five,
before he went to Vietnam, John McCain was on Jeopardy.
He was a one day champion. Actually NASA, I had

(00:27):
no idea, but they used to hold beauty pageants in
the fifties and sixties. The title changed names from miss
Guided Missile to Queen of Outer Space to miss NASA.
That's the true thing. Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Jesse
James H. G. Wells, and Charles Darwin. They all married
their first cousins. And King Arthur didn't just have a

(00:50):
sword named Excalabre. He also had a spear named Ron.
That is a look today at shore random facts
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