Every morning around 8:15am Brooks gives you one minute of Useless Facts to impress your friends with…

• Walt Disney did the original voice of Mickey Mouse. He stopped after 17 years when he got too busy and had to turn it over to someone else.
• Denmark has had five different prime ministers since 1993. Three of them had the last name Rasmussen, and none of them are related.
• It’s illegal to reincarnate in China without government permission.
• The female blanket octopus is over 70 times larger than the male. She’s six feet, he’s less than an inch.
• The first number one single by an Asian-American was “Like a G6” by Far East Movement in 2010. And that was the first number one single by anyone of Asian descent since Kyu Sakamoto’s song “Sukiyaki” in 1963.