1. The harmonica player on Thin Lizzy’s 1978 album “Live and Dangerous” was . . . Huey Lewis. He was credited as “Bluesey Huey Lewis” . . . and you can hear him on “Baby Drives Me Crazy”.
2. For the first five U.S. presidential elections, only white men who owned property could vote.
3. The world record for bench press was 364 pounds in 1916. It’s now almost QUADRUPLE that . . . a guy named Jimmy Kolb bench pressed 1,401 pounds in 2023. (The “raw” record, without the help of a bench shirt, is 783 pounds. That was set in 2021 by Julius Maddox.)
4. In Europe, Cool Ranch Doritos are called Cool American Doritos.
5. The tongue twister “She sells seashells by the seashore” was inspired by a female paleontologist named Mary Anning who sold fossils out of a little stand on Dorset Beach in England in the early 1800s.
