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Five Fun Facts for Friday, June 9, 2023

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, June 9, 2023

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Here are your Five Fun Facts for Friday:

1. Franklin is the most common city name. There are 28 of them in America. Clinton, Madison, and Washington are tied for second (27 each) . . . and Chester, Greenville, Marion, and Springfield at third (25).


2.  There's no documented case in history of a pirate making a treasure map.

3.  Calling someone a chicken doesn't make sense . . . chickens are actually braver than other birds.

4.  The voice of Siri comes from a voiceover artist named Susan Bennett.  She was hired to record a bunch of phrases and sentences by a software company in 2005.  And Apple eventually bought both the software and the recordings.

5.  From 1891 to 1911, Pittsburgh was spelled without an "H" at the end . . . because the U.S. Board on Geographic Names thought it was confusing.

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, June 9, 2023