Five Things You Need To Know: Fun Facts

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Five Things You Need To Know for Tuesday, May 5th, 2020:
FUN FACTS!

1.  Bubble gum is pink because that's the only color of food coloring that the inventor had available.

2.  Samsung started in 1938 in Korea as a company that exported food like dried fish to China.

3.  Disney hasn't added a new country to Epcot's World Showcase since 1988, when they added Norway.  But they have room for six more.  Originally, Israel, equatorial Africa, and Spain were supposed to be included . . . but they were cut.

4.  Crystal meth was invented in Japan in 1919.

5.  H&R Block owns the copyright for the GIF file format.  It was created by the old Internet company Compuserve, which H&R Block acquired.