Here are some random facts for you.
1. The idea of “free refills” dates back to American coffeehouses in the 19th century, but Taco Bell is credited with being the first fast food chain to make it mainstream in 1988. (Here’s a 1988 commercial hyping “free refills.”)
It didn’t hurt their bottom line, because Pepsi bought Taco Bell 10 years earlier. (And here’s Taco Bell proclaiming they were the first.)
2. Marilyn Monroe was born the same year as Hugh Hefner. She was born June 1st, 1926, and he was born two months earlier, on April 9th.
3. “Game of Thrones” and “Friends” had roughly the same budget, at $10 million per episode. “Friends” cost that much, even two decades earlier, because the cast’s salaries were so high.
4. Al Green’s “Take Me to the River” was a big hit, but it made its biggest chunk of royalties from being the song that’s sung by the Big Mouth Billy Bass electronic fish.
5. Some of the only people who can legally bring switchblades into the U.S. are people who are missing an arm.
(QSR Magazine / Rolling Stone / The Independent / Wikipedia / Cornell)
