Strange Facts and Minutiae

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 7 p.m.

b'Long time listeners know that GamerDude is a bit of a trivia-head. This week, he talks about some more of the strange facts, interesting stories and minutiae that he\'s collected over the years.\\xa0 He briefly revisits the parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy before talking about numerous other facts he\'s accumulated. He talks about how footprints in concrete came to be a "thing" in front of Grauman\'s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. He talks about some word origins and how they came to be.\\xa0 He has stories about ancient explorers and the brilliant idea the Office of Stragegic Services had for ending World War II. And, he talks about one theory about how the suits in a deck of cards came to be.'