Here are some random facts for you . . .
1. “Coachella” began as a typo. The town in California was founded over a century ago, and it was originally going to be called Conchilla, after the Spanish word for the small white snail shells found in the valley’s sandy soil.
But in the original materials, the printer misspelled “Conchilla” as “Coachella” . . . and rather than re-do everything, they just went with the misspelled name.
2. When Oprah gave everyone in her audience a car back in 2004, they all ended up owing the IRS about $6,000 in taxes.
3. Weird Al Yankovic started the Volcano Worshippers club at his high school in California. He says they didn’t actually worship volcanoes, they just wanted to get another photo of themselves in the yearbook.
4. John Wilkes Booth planned on assassinating both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, but Grant decided not to go to the theater that night because his wife didn’t like Mary Todd Lincoln.
5. Jupiter’s gravity field is so huge that it basically acts like a vacuum cleaner and sucks away things like comets, asteroids, and debris that would otherwise hit and possibly destroy the Earth.
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