Five Random Facts For Thursday

Here are some random facts for you.

 

1.  The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was “Steamboat Willie”, and it was shown before a gangster movie called “Gang War” in 1928.

 

2.  When Sarah Michelle Gellar was five, she did a Burger King commercial that made fun of McDonald’s hamburgers.  So McDonald’s sued Burger King, named her in the lawsuit, and she was banned from going to McDonald’s.

 

3.  Freeze dried “astronaut ice cream” was never actually eaten by astronauts on any mission.  It WAS developed for NASA, but never made it to space.

 

4.  Four people have won a presidential election even though they lost the popular vote:  John Quincy AdamsRutherford B. HayesBenjamin Harrison and George W. Bush.

 

5.  Michael Jackson sang the chorus for the one-hit wonder “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell.

 

 (Wikipedia / Huffington Post / cnet / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)