Five Random Facts for Monday

I thought I'd pass along some random facts for today....and here they are.

DID YOU KNOW:

Mushrooms and other fungi share more DNA with PEOPLE than they do with vegetables.

The movie "Footloose" was originally called "Cheek to Cheek".

There are six U.S. presidents who'd never been elected to any office before they became president:  Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Donald Trump.

Steven Spielberg turned down an offer to direct the first "Harry Potter" movie because he thought it wouldn't be challenging . . . and that it should have been animated.

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