Fun Facts

For the past four years, CBS News Correspondent Steve Hartman has been proving that "Everybody Has A Story." Along with cameraman Les Rose, he has criss-crossed the country to get a picture of real-life America.

On Thursday, Jan. 16, he will throw a dart at a map to choose the subject of his 100th report on The Early Show for this award-winning series.

Here are some fun facts about "Everybody Has A Story:"

• It has taken Hartman up to as many as 44 phone calls before getting someone to agree to tell his story.
• Top five most visited states are Texas (7), Iowa (6), Montana (5), Kentucky (5) and Utah (5).
• Hartman and cameraman Les Rose are on the road chasing darts almost one-third of the year.
• Hartman has logged approximately 100,000 miles and 150 flights for "Everybody Has A Story."
• Hartman's youngest subject was a 4-year-old cowgirl from Nephi, Utah
• Hartman's oldest subject was an 87-year old woman who still does her son's laundry in Bastrop, La.
• Hartman's first EHAS, a piece from Garden City, Texas, aired on July 1, 1998 on CBS News' "Public Eye."
• Hartman has followed the dart to 40 states at least once.
• Miami is the largest city to which the dart has taken him.
• McMullen County, Texas (population: 851), which requires a one-page phonebook, is the smallest muncipality he's visited.
• He's been to one Texas county (Motley County, Texas) with only 500 residents twice and, coincidentally, profiled next-door neighbors.
• The weirdest story Hartman's encountered was a funeral director in Laurinburg, N.C., who has kept a mummy in his garage for 60 years.
• Hartman's toughest interview was with a woman from Normal, Ill., who replied to most of his questions with "No comment."