USELESS FACTS:
Every morning around 8:15am Brooks gives you one minute of Useless Facts to impress your friends with…
- There are currently 35 active national emergencies in the U.S., with one going all the way back to 1979.
- Only one NFL player weighed over 300 pounds in 1970. By 2010, there were over 500 players at NFL training camps who weighed over 300.
- The technical term for the rumbling in your stomach is “borborygmus.” (That’s pronounced bore-buh-RIG-mus.)
- Bob Marley gave a songwriting credit on “No Woman, No Cry” to a man named Vincent Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in Jamaica. It was his way of making sure it would be funded forever.
- By age 70, your body has shed 105 pounds of skin.