1. If Puerto Rico was added as a 51st state, it would be 30th in population . . . ahead of 21 other states. If Washington, D.C. was added as a 52nd, it would be 50th in population . . . ahead of Vermont and Wyoming.
2. Hawaiian pizza with ham and pineapple wasn’t invented in Hawaii. It was invented by a guy named Sam Panopoulos in Ontario, Canada in 1962.
3. GEICO came up with its gecko mascot in 1999 when there was a Screen Actors Guild strike that kept them from using live actors.
