Nike's "Just Do It" slogan is based on a murderer's last words. Gary Gilmore killed two people in Utah and got the death penalty in 1976 . . . for his last words, he said, "Let's do it."
Believe it or no, actor Billy Bob Thornton has a phobia of antiques and refuses to stay in a room that has furniture from earlier than 1950. Supposedly, some 250,000 in the US suffer from it.
Believe it or no the U.S. Forest Service created Smokey the Bear in 1944 after their deal ran out with Disney to use Bambi on their forest fire prevention posters.
Believe it or no, there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy . . . and it's not even that close. There are around three trillion trees versus 100 to 400 billion stars.
Curious to know what stories our listeners may have, we took to social media to ask. The results are juicy, dramatic and -- in some instances -- just awful.
Believe it or no, the busiest McDonald's in the world is in Moscow, Russia. It serves at least 850,000 people per year, which is twice as much as the average American McDonald's.
Believe it or no, if you could only die in sudden accidents and not from disease or old age, the average person would live to be 8,938 years old, and some people who really beat the odds would live into their 40,000s.