It’s time to up your IQ with today’s Ride Home Random Facts!
1. A park in Vancouver, British Columbia is nicknamed Dude Chilling Park because of a sculpture depicting a dude kicking back and chilling.
2. The five Space Shuttles orbited Earth a combined 20,952 times over 134 flights.
3. Before settling on Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos wanted to name his online bookstore “Cadabra” — as in “abracadabra.” His attorney convinced him that this sounded a bit too much like “cadaver.”
4. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people worldwide.
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