Random Facts: How did Milk Duds get their name?

How did Milk Duds get their name?
Do squirrels hibernate? 
How did Popeye get all his strength?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
WHOA, that was kind of random. Mel tying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's go ahead today and take a look at your
random facts. You know, squirrels hibernate so hard that you
could juggle them without waking them up.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
You shouldn't juggle scirrels, but you could.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
The word duds and milk duds actually came about because
the company that created them tried to make them perfectly
round but found it was impossible, so all of them
wound up being duds. During a war between Austria and Turkey,
that's happened in the seventeen hundreds, two Austrian army groups
accidentally got into a battle with each other, where ten thousand.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Soldiers were wounded or killed. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Surgeons who play video games at least three hours a
week performed twenty seven percent faster, and we'll make like
thirty seven percent fewer errors. And Popeye didn't always get
strength from spinach in the early comic strips.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
He actually got his power from.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Rubbing a magic hin that's a look today. Adds your
random facts