Here are some random facts for you.
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. In the 1300s in England, one of the only ways for a woman to get a divorce was if her husband was impotent. So there was an actual job for someone who would inspect men’s junk to determine if their wives’ claims were true.
4. 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.
(Wikipedia / History / Mind Hacker / The Paris Review / Wikipedia / Fandom)
