1. Popeyes Chicken is named after Gene Hackman’s character Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in “The French Connection”.
2. East coast and west coast butter are different. West coast butter sticks are shorter and thicker . . . and it all goes back to the butter presses different dairies used in the mid 1900s.
3. Instant replay started at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Judges asked CBS if they could review the tape of the event to see if a skier had missed a gate on the slalom . . . and that gave CBS the idea to show replays.
4. A “Calvin and Hobbes” fan calculated the dollar value of all the damage Calvin caused over the course of the comic strip. It comes out to $15,955.50.
5. People driving BELOW the speed limit are more likely to get in an accident than people driving ABOVE the speed limit.
