Three Facts & A Fib – Thurs. 2/15: Buildings With A 13th Floor / Home Improvement Video Games / Who Almost Played Gordon Gekko

Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!) 

1.  “Mork & Mindy” scripts were shorter than most sitcoms, because of Robin Williams’ improv.  Sections of the script would be notated with things like, “Robin will do something here.”

2.  There are no known buildings in the U.S. with more than 13 stories actually HAVE a 13th floor, because of the superstition around the number 13.

3.  There was a video game based on the TV show “Home Improvement” for Super Nintendo in 1994.  And it didn’t come with an instruction manual . . . it just said, quote, “Real men don’t need instructions.”

4.  Before Michael Douglas got the part of Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street”, it was offered to Warren Beatty and Richard Gere.

AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)

#2!

Only about 15% of the buildings in the U.S. with more than 13 stories actually HAVE a 13th floor, because of the superstition around the number 13.

(Wikipedia / Bloomberg / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)