1. The town of Spearfish, South Dakota holds the world record for the fastest temperature change. On January 22, 1943, the temperature at 7:30 A.M. was minus-4 . . . then the winds picked up and two minutes later, it was 45 degrees.
2. Sony sold 12 million floppy discs in 2009. The peak year was 2002, when they sold 47 million. They stopped producing and selling floppy discs in 2011.
3. About half the cereal brands that come out are discontinued within five years.
4. The 56 highest mountains in America are all in four states: Alaska, California, Colorado, and Washington.
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5. There’s only one documented case of someone being killed with “cement shoes” . . . and it happened in May of 2016. A gang member in Brooklyn washed up with his legs set in concrete. Before then it was completely fictional.
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