Here are some of my favorite KNOWLEDGE BOMB Fun Facts for this week!

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The guy who invented the Slinky had a nervous breakdown, moved to Bolivia to be a missionary . . . or possibly join a cult, the details are sketchy . . . left his company to his wife, and never came back.

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Before MC Hammer became famous, he started a Christian rap group called the Holy Ghost Boys.  But he left them to go solo.

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The hundreds of Jonestown cult members who killed themselves in 1978 didn't actually drink poisoned Kool-Aid.  They drank poisoned Flavor Aid, which is a cheap knock-off of Kool-Aid.

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The "Star Trek" hand gesture for "live long and prosper" is derived from part of a Hebrew blessing that Leonard Nimoy first saw at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Boston as a young boy.

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2023 marks 100 years since the construction of the Hollywood Sign . . . 125 years since the city of New York was officially formed . . . 100 years since a Checker Taxi first hit the streets . . . 100 years since Disney was founded . .

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If stars in the night sky are sparkling, it's a sign of atmospheric turbulence.

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Chocolate ice cream was invented before vanilla ice cream.

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The world record for the longest career at the same company is over 84 years.  A guy in Brazil started working at a textile company when he was 15 years old . . . and he's apparently still there now, at age 100!

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