Fun Fact Friday Part V - John Goodman's Voice

It's probably safe to say John Goodman is a well-known and respected actor. He's been in dozens of popular films and a few TV series.

Ever watch something, hear a voice, and know for a fact you've heard that voice before, but you just can't place it? Well, it may have been Mr. Goodman himself.

Sure, we've all seen Monsters, Inc./Monsters University a time or two, but did you know John Goodman was also featured in The Simpsons, Futurama, and several TV commercials?

John Goodman and Jon Lovitz

John Goodman and Steve Buscemi

He's there...after the horrible song. 

And then there's this little gem we just couldn't resist sharing.

Fun Fact Friday Part IV - Little Boxes

The Showtime hit “Weeds” featured a song called “Little Boxes” as its theme song for the first three seasons and it's final season. The song was written in 1962 by Malvina Reynolds and was a success for her friend Pete Seeger the very next year. During the eight-year run of “Weeds,” more than 30 versions of the song were used. (A similar technique was used years before on the hit HBO show “The Wire,” as each season highlighted a different version of Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole.”)

Fun Fact Friday Part III - The Colonel

"Colonel" Harland Sanders wasn’t born or raised in Kentucky, but he did become a Kentucky Colonel, hence his frequently-used title. It wasn’t until 1952, when he was 62 and completely broke, that his friend Pete Harman helped him create the first KFC (Harman also came up with the slogan "Finger Lickin' Good"). The original Sanders Court & Cafe was located in Corbin, Kentucky and had been doing steady business, but was nothing to write home about. The first restaurant to sport the Kentucky Fried Chicken name was actually located near Salt Lake City, Utah. A few years later Dave Thomas, of Wendy’s fame, a young Vietnam vet at the time, ended up working for Sanders and made several innovative changes. Remember the giant rotating bucket outside your local KFC? That was Dave's idea.

Fun Fact Friday Part II - Root Beer

Modern root beer is slightly different from the original stuff made back in the 1700s, because in 1960 the FDA banned sassafras oil and safrole in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs. Safrole is a naturally-occurring oil in sassafras bark, but it has been deemed carcinogenic and has been used to make Ecstasy. Safrole also is banned for use in soap and perfumes. In 1994, the ban was changed. You can now mass produce and sell foods with sassafrass oil as long as the safrole has been removed.

Fun Fact Friday

The distance from Norway and North Korea is roughly 4700 miles, yet they are separated by only one country (Russia). Norway and North Korea are roughly the same distance apart as Norway and Utah.