I have a brain that’s filled with useless knowledge. It makes me a pretty fair Trivial Pursuit players, but it’s not good for much else.
But just when I thought I knew everything, I find that I don’t know quite as much trivia as I thought.
I received an e-mail several weeks ago that was filled with things that I never knew before.
For example, did you know that more money is printed for the Monopoly game every day than for the U.S. Treasury? Men can read smaller pint than women, but women can hear better than men.
The first man and women to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. It’s impossible to lick your elbow.
The African continent is 28 percent wilderness. The North American continent is 38 percent wilderness.
There are 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.
The cable cars in San Francisco are the only U.S. national monuments that can move.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. The king of spades is King David, the king of hearts is Charlemagne, the king of clubs is Alexander the Great and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar.
If the statue in the park of a soldier on a horse has both legs in the air, the soldier died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the sair, the soldier died of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They were all invented by women.
If you spell out numbers, you’d have to go to one thousand before you would find the letter “A.”
John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only two founding fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4. Most signed on August 2 and the last signature wasn’t added until five years later.
There are more collect phone calls made on Father’s Day than any other day of the year.
The State of Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work. Coca Cola was originally green.
Finally, at least 75 percent of people who read this will try to lick their elbow! |
