1.  The Washington Generals lost to the Harlem Globetrotters 2,495 times in a row before they accidentally beat them on January 5, 1971.

2.  The “Transformers” cartoon from the ’80s once had a fictional Middle East city named “Carbombya.”  And Casey Kasem quit as one of their voiceover actors because of it.

3.  Domino’s and Pizza Hut are luxury items in Japan . . . a large pizza costs around $35.

4.  You can get a really good estimate of the temperature in Fahrenheit by counting how many times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds, then adding 40 to that number.

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5.  There have been three players in Major League Baseball with the first name Aurelio . . . and all three were killed in car accidents.  Aurelio Monteagudo died in 1990 . . . Aurelio Lopez in 1992 . . . and Aurelio Rodriguez in 2000.

(Wikipedia / Transformers Wiki / Wikipedia / Scientific American / Quora)