1. Sliced bread is less than 100 years old. It was sold for the first time 97 years ago, in Chillicothe, Missouri.
2. The expression “My bad” became popular because of the former NBA star Manute Bol. He didn’t quite have a full grasp of English, so instead of saying “My fault” when something went wrong, he’d say “My bad.” And that spread.
3. According to an interview with Walt Disney in 1933, Mickey and Minnie Mouse are married.
4. Every year, the U.S. goes through enough cardboard boxes for shipping to build a mile-high cardboard wall around the entire continental U.S.
5. There were more than 61 million people using pagers in 1994. That number is down to about two million today, mostly in hospitals.
