It’s National Trivia Day

And the Mental Floss blog has pulled out 119 amazingly trivial facts. Here are some of my favs:

6. When he appeared on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, Bill Clinton correctly answered three questions about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

15. A 1913 New York Times article on portmanteaus includes the word “alcoholiday,” which describes leisure time spent drinking. <how did that fall out of favor?

35. That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” is called a tittle.

44. Norwegian skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset on why he didn’t win gold at the 2010 Olympics: “I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days.”

59. When the computer mouse was invented, it was called the “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.”

64. A milliHelen is the quantity of beauty required to launch just one ship.

79. Dr. Ruth was trained as a sniper by the Israeli military.

84. Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.

97. At an NOAA conference in 1972, Roxcy Bolton proposed naming hurricanes after Senators instead of women. She also preferred “him-i-canes.”

99. Horses can’t vomit.

Read the full list here.

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