Dad Facts for 6/5/25

DAD FACTS

If you’re like me, you hold on to trivial (aka useless) knowledge in the event a perfect conversation happens wherein dropping this knowledge will make me look like I’m smarter than I am, then here are some facts to commit to memory...

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.

Chris Fisher

Fisher

Fisher has been entertaining the masses since childhood. With over 25 years of radio broadcast experience, his first exposure to announcing came at the age of 7, when he won the part of Narrator of his church's Christmas play

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