Five Random Facts For Monday

Here are some random facts for you.

 

1.  Louis Armstrong is the oldest person to have a number one single.  He was almost 63 when “Hello, Dolly!” hit number one on the Billboard chart in May of 1964.

 

2.  Skype’s name is a shortened version of its original name, “Sky Peer-to-Peer.”  The people who created it originally wanted to shorten that to “Skyper,” but that domain name was taken.

 

3.  The only state you can type with one row of keys on the keyboard is Alaska.

 

4.  Before Jim Jones became a cult leader and eventually led more than 900 people to their deaths, he worked as a door-to-door pet monkey salesman in Indiana.

 

5.  The Woody character in “Toy Story” was originally supposed to be a ventriloquist dummy, not a cowboy.

 

(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wordplays / Washington Post / Retrojunk)