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

• The first appearance of Cookie Monster was in an IBM training film in 1967.
• Elephants grow six different sets of teeth in their lives. Once the sixth ones fall out, they die of starvation.
• Diet Pepsi isn’t vegan . . . but Pepsi won’t say what animal ingredient it uses that keeps it from being vegan because that’s, quote, “commercially sensitive information.”
• The Beatles are the only artists that ever had five songs in the top five spots on the Billboard chart simultaneously.
• On April 4, 1964, the top five were: “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Twist and Shout”, “She Loves You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and “Please Please Me”.
• America had laws against animal abuse before there were laws against child abuse.