These are your Ride Home Random Facts for this Monday!
1. “Pumpkin spice” may have first spread to non-pie foods in 1936 . . . when a recipe for “pumpkin spice cakes” appeared in the “Washington Post”. It was described as a “desirable dessert for a family dinner, and a healthful pick-me-up for children after school.”
2. Only two American artists have made a music video for over $1 million in the past decade: Madonna’s video for “Give Me All Your Luvin'” in 2012 cost $1.5 million, and Gwen Stefani’s “Make Me Like You” in 2016 cost $4 million.
3. Richard Johnson, the ninth vice president of the U.S., was in a relationship with a slave he inherited named Julia Chinn. It was illegal to marry a slave, but he openly acknowledged her as his common-law wife and they had two daughters.
4. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy . . . approximately 3.04 trillion trees versus 100 to 400 billion stars.
5 The North Korean government owns a chain restaurant called Pyongyang that has locations in several other countries including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. And it serves dog meat.
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