Five Fun Facts for Wednesday, July 29th, 2020!
1. NASA used to hold beauty pageants in the '50s and '60s. The title changed names from "Miss Guided Missile" to "Queen of Outer Space" to "Miss NASA."2. Teabags were invented by accident in 1908. A salesman in New York sent samples of tea to people in silk bags, and they assumed they were supposed to put the entire bag into the pot. And the trend caught on.
3. The YMCA initially threatened to SUE the Village People over the song "YMCA" . . . but they dropped the suit when they found their membership had gone WAY up thanks to the song.
4. Portland, Oregon was named by a coin flip . . . the other name option was Boston. The two guys who founded the city were from Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine. The guy from Maine won the toss and named the city Portland.
5. The "CR-V" in "Honda CR-V" stands for "Comfortable Runabout Vehicle."
