Here they are…the Tuesday Ride Home Random Facts!
1. They’re apparently rebooting the 1988 classic “Working Girl”, but did you know NBC tried it as a TV show back in 1990? It only lasted 12 episodes, and it starred an unknown actress named . . . Sandra Bullock.
2. There are more KFC locations in China than the United States . . . a LOT more. There are 7,166 KFCs in China . . . and 3,943 in America.
3. The fast-food chain Popeyes isn’t named after the cartoon character . . . it’s named after Gene Hackman’s character Popeye Doyle from the movie “The French Connection”.
4. The first thing anyone ever purchased online was . . . a bag of weed. Some students from Stanford University sold a tiny amount of marijuana to some guys from MIT using an early version of the Internet called “Arpanet” in 1972.
5. A woman’s rights leader named Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president. She ran in 1872 against Ulysses S. Grant, and couldn’t vote for herself . . . because it was 48 years before women got the right.
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