Here are some random facts for you.
1. The Dum-Dum lollipop “mystery flavors” aren’t secret, specific flavors. They just add the next flavor to the batch, and the mix of two in-between becomes the mystery flavors. So they are always different.
2. The first hashtag ever used was “#barcamp.” A social technology expert named Chris Messina tweeted in August 2007, “How do you feel about using [the pound sign] for groups. As in #barcamp?” Clearly people liked that idea.
3. FDR’s family became wealthy thanks to his grandfather’s work in the opium trade.
4. Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit in the U.S. And neither have the Backstreet Boys, One Direction, James Brown, Don Henley, Pat Benatar, and Sheryl Crow.
And Bob Dylan hadn’t landed a #1 on ANY Billboard chart, until he was 78 years old. It finally happened in 2020, when his 17-minute song “Murder Most Foul” topped the Rock Digital Song Sales chart. (???)
5. Jam is made from fruit, jelly is made from juice, preserves have chunks of fruit, and marmalades have peel and pulp.
(Wikipedia / Hashtags / New York Times / Wikipedia / The Kitchn)
