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March 14, 2025 1 min
What did the Vikings think was in heaven? 
What is the lowest place on the Interstate Hwy and where is it? 
Who was "Rich Girl" from Hall & Oates actually about? 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel dyed for Random
Facts with Mel Taylor, so pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
But the lowest point in the Interstate Highway System elevation wise, anyhow,
is the Fort Henry Tunnel, carries traffic on nine ninety
five underneath the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is one hundred and
seven feet below the harbor's water surface. The word gymnasium
comes from the Greek word gymnazine, which literally translates to

(00:27):
exercise naked. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC was designed
by a twenty one year old architects student at Yale.
Her name Maya Lynn. Her professor had given her a
bee for the design, which is crazy because he also
submitted his own design proposal, which obviously lost. The Vikings
believe that in heaven there was a giant's goat whose

(00:48):
utters provided an unlimited supply of beer. I like it.
And Rich Girl by Hollinoads wasn't actually about a girl.
It was actually been a guy named Victor Walker who
came from a rich family in Chicago. But Daryl Hall
thought rich girls sound better than rich guide. That's a
look today at random facts
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