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

• Bono’s mother died when he was 14 . . . she had a brain aneurysm at her father’s funeral. So yeah, his mom died at his grandpa’s funeral. That’s awful.
• Based on his height and the weight of marshmallows, the “Stay Puft Marshmallow Man” from “Ghostbusters” would weigh about 3.87 million pounds. Or about 2,000 tons.
• The Morgan Freeman movie “10 Items or Less” was the first film that was legally available for downloading, in 2006.
• There’s only one NHL team that’s won every time it’s made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Colorado Avalanche are 2-and-0.
• From 2011 through 2012, China produced more cement than the U.S. did throughout the entire 20th century.