1. The shopping cart was first introduced in 1937. It was invented by Sylvan Goldman, the owner of the Humpty Dumpty grocery chain in Oklahoma City.
And no one liked them. Men found them effeminate, and women found them suggestive of a baby carriage . . . in a bad way. But they eventually became a hit, and Sylvan became a multimillionaire, off his royalties from the design.
2. The producers of “Gone with the Wind” were fined $5,000 for using the word “damn” in the movie.
3. Barbra Streisand is the only person who’s had a number one album in six decades. Her first was “People” in 1964, and her sixth was “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway” in 2014.
Barbra can go for SEVEN later this month, when she releases her next album, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2”.
5. The first appearance of Cookie Monster was in an IBM training film in 1967.
