Here are some random facts for you.
1. The Pet Shop Boys named their first album “Please” so people could go into record shops and say “Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album, please?” (That’s the album with “West End Girls“.)
2. When Queen Elizabeth the Second was just a princess in 1945, she joined the British military for World War Two and trained to be a mechanic.
3. Sean Connery had a chance to play Gandalf in the “Lord of the Rings” movies, but turned it down because he didn’t understand the scripts. He was even offered a piece of the backend of the movies that now would’ve been worth at least $450 million.
4. Only four presidents didn’t appoint a single Supreme Court justice. William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Jimmy Carter didn’t have an opportunity, and Andrew Johnson nominated one, but he was rejected by the Senate.
5. Before a hurricane, the two top-selling items at Walmart are Pop-Tarts and beer.
(Wikipedia / Mashable / NME / Far Out / Wikipedia / Country Living)
