interesting junk that you hear or read here and there....any subject.
like the old larry king column.

coffee consumption in usa is highest since 2012......i wonder how much is associated with k cups.

famed author pete hamill once dated jackie kennedy onassis and shirley mcclain at same time.

the greatest new writer of horror novels is steven king's son - joe hill.

the original casting idea for west side story was to cast a lot of young pop stars...elvis presley was considered for tony...others considered was paul anka..i think bobby rydell.....bobby darin...tab hunter.......col. parker said no....
if he was alive james dean would have been a great riff.

oj simpson used to live on a street in miami called killian street.

leaving politics aside...if howard schultz does run for prez as an independent there could be big impact on starbucks cafes and products and the stock....starbucks could be badly damaged.

the tv dinner was invented in 1953 for swanson.....;.originally called a television dinner...a sales mgr for swanson saw that pan am served food on trays with individual compartments and came up with the idea..he was looking for a way to deal with 520,000 lbs of turkey...they sold at first for 98 cents which is equivalent to 6 dollars today.

Potpourri? If people start talking politics you can change the subject line to kitty litter.

Bracco is dead on. Introduce politics, in any way, to this kind of thread and it will turn to crap...I mean kitty litter. Interesting political facts may be interesting but they are also toxic. I do agree with your assessment of Schultz and Starbucks.

Yogurt is being blamed as a key reason to the sharp increase in American obesity.

claude monet's father tried to discourage him pursuing a career as a painter........he wanted him to be a grocer.

charles manson auditioned for the monkeys tv show.

in either late 1864 or early 1865 edwin booth, the brother john wilkes booth saved the life of robert lincoln..son of president lincoln......robert lincoln was accidentally pushed off a train platform and was saved by booth from aa oncoming hurtling locomotive.

Marcel Proust literally died from the effort it took to write his 4,215-page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (French for In Search of Lost Time.) The original (and best) English translation, titled Remembrance of Things Past, by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was so taxing it literally killed Moncrieff as well.