Random Facts: Where are most Christmas Decorations made?

Where are most Christmas Decorations made? 
Who did tim Burton almost cast as Batman, instead of Michael Keaton? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well that was kind of random. Mel dying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's take a look today at your random facts. I
got some good ones. So it seems like Italy and tomatoes,
you know I would go hand in hand. But tomatoes
were originally just an ornamental table decoration. They weren't incorporated
into Italy's cuisine until the seventeen hundreds. At some point,
Disney planned on building their second park in Saint Louis,

(00:26):
not Orlando. They developed a park in the nineteen sixties.
It was called Walt Disney's river Front Square, but it
wound up felling through. I guess Tim Burton considered casting
Bill Murray as Batman instead of Michael Keaton. Sixty percent
of all Christmas decorations in the world are made in
factories in one town in China. It's called EU sixty percent.

(00:52):
My goodness, and it's impossible to poison apossum. They produced
a protein that basically neutralizes any poison that inner their body.
Scientists are trying to use it to build a universal
poison antidotes for people. That's a look today at your
random facts.