Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. Leap Years don’t ALWAYS happen every four years, due to rounding.
The last “skipped” Leap Year was in 1900. And the next one is in 2100.
2. There are two governors of California with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. No governor from any other state has a star.
Two former U.S. PRESIDENTS have a star: Reagan and Donald Trump.
3. Mattel passed on making “Star Wars” toys in the late ’70s because the president of the company’s wife had a rumored affair with Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo. So they had their designers come up with ideas for their own line of action figures . . . and they created “He-Man”.
4. Around half of Fortune 500 companies started during a depression or recession, including Disney, HP, FedEx, and Microsoft.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#3!
3. Mattel passed on making “Star Wars” toys in the late ’70s because they didn’t want to pay the massive $750,000 licensing fee. So they had their designers come up with ideas for their own line of action figures . . . and they created “He-Man”.
(Smithsonian / Wikipedia / The Gamer / CBS News )
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