5 Random Facts: Corn Flakes, He-Man & Hooters

All of these factoids have been vetted and verified as 100% accurate. Well, as accurate as you can get. Ok, in most cases, it says so on Wikipedia. Is that good enough for you??

1. The first cereal that offered kids a prize was Kellogg's Corn Flakes in 1909. People who bought two boxes could send away for a book called "The Funny Jungleland Moving Pictures Book".

Ironically, the pages of the book tasted much better than the Corn Flakes did back in those days.

2. In the original "He-Man" cartoons in the early '80s, he couldn't use his sword as a weapon because of broadcast standards rules, and the only enemies he was allowed to destroy were robots.

I remember this. The 80's were a weird time for cartoons because adults had somehow gotten it into their heads that if a kid saw a coyote fall off a cliff it would turn them into psychopathic killers. It resulted in some very truncated and unsatisfying cartoons for a few years until the lapse of sanity passed.

3. In the Canadian Football League's championship game, they give out an MVP award, and a SECOND award called the Most Valuable Canadian . . . for the best player in the game who's actually from Canada.

"Congratulations, eh! You're the most valuable Canadian on the team. Now, pass out the Gatorade to the American players."

4. Approximately 8,000 Facebook members die every single day.

"The original way of unfriending someone"

5. Hooters tweeted out this week that they originally got their name from this Steve Martin comedian routine...

"And to think: Hooters could just as easily have been named "Cat Juggling".