trivia

Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 9, and the River Morning Show thought it would be fun to test their knowledge by trying to guess some popular television moms on-air. Can you name all of them?

Believe it or no, 'N Sync nearly had a cameo in Attack of the Clones. Boy band 'N Sync made a cameo in Attack of the Clones at the request of George Lucas' daughter. They were edited out of the final cut.

There's a city in Alaska called Diomede that's just 2.4 miles away from Russia. It’s not actually on mainland Alaska but is a tiny settlement on the west coast of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Straight. Population was just 93 in 2019.

Believe it or no, "Ping pong" is actually trademarked by Parker Brothers. The generic term you're supposed to use for the game is table tennis.

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, the average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds. But the weight is distributed across such a big space, it still floats.

Believe it or no, if you took all the cardboard that Amazon uses for shipping boxes in a year, it could cover the entire U.S. around two-and-a-half times.

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.

Believe it or no, the geographical center of North America is a town in North Dakota named . . . Center. And that name is just a coincidence.

Believe it or no, after "Top Gun" came out, the number of men joining the Navy to become Naval pilots went up 500%.