Here are some random facts for you.
1. It’s hard to imagine now, but just 40 years ago, in 1984, the U.S. had its second-largest landslide in a presidential election, behind only Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
Ronald Reagan was re-elected for a second term with 525 electoral votes, carrying every state except Minnesota (10 electoral votes) and Washington, D.C. (3). Minnesota was the home state of his opponent, Walter Mondale.
This was the last time any candidate won the popular vote by double digits, Reagan had 58.8% of the vote, while Mondale had 40.6%.
2. There are 11 teams in the NCAA’s Ohio Valley Conference, but none of them are from Ohio. They’re from Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee.
3. After Janet Leigh watched herself in the famous shower scene in “Psycho”, she never took another shower, she only took baths for the rest of her life.
4. Astronauts in space can’t do laundry, so dirty clothes from the International Space Station get sent out into space to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
5. NASA has offices in a lab in a building in New York City, right above Tom’s Restaurant, which you’d recognize as the diner from “Seinfeld”.
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Woman’s World / BBC / NASA)
