Random Facts: Why is Jupiter so important to Earth?

Why is Jupiter so important to Earth?
How much did people have to pay for the "free" cars from Oprah? 
What was Coachella's original city name? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel tying for random
facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's take a look today at your random facts. So
Jupiter's gravity field is so huge that it basically acts
like a vacuum cleaner, and it sucks away things like
comets and asteroids and debris that would otherwise hit and
possibly destroy the Earth. Like we love Jupiter. John Wilkes
Booth planned on assassinating both Abe Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant,

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but Grant decided not to go to the theater that
night because his wife didn't like Mary Todd Lincoln. Abe
Lincoln's wife. Weird Al Yankovic started the Volcano Worshiping Club
at his high school in California. He said they didn't
actually worship volcanoes, but wanted to get another photo themselves
in the yearbook. It's pretty fun. Actually, when Oprah gave

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away everyone in our audience a car back in two
thousand and four became one of the memes of the century.
They all ended up owing the irs about six grand
in taxes. Coachella started out as a type oh The
town of California was founded over a century ago, and
it was originally supposed to be called conchila as the
Spanish word for the small white snail shell found in
the Valley sandy soil, but somebody misspelled it and they

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didn't want to change it.