Five Random Facts for Wednesday

Here are some random facts for you . . .

 

 

1.  About 80% of tweets come from about 10% of users.

 

 

2.  The Buick LaCrosse was renamed the Allure when it debuted in Canada in 2004 . . . because in Quebec, “crosse” is a slang term.  Apparently Buick stopped caring by 2010, because then they changed it back to the LaCrosse.

 

 

3.  Every president since Ronald Reagan has had a food taster, who tries the food to make sure the president doesn’t get poisoned.

 

 

4.  “Speed 2: Cruise Control” only got positive reviews from two major film critics . . . Siskel and Ebert.

 

 

5.  It’s a federal crime to reuse a stamp . . . it can get you up to one year in prison.

 

 

(Mashable / Wikipedia / Snopes / Rotten Tomatoes / Cornell)