I tried trivial pursuit once - did you know they actually ask serious questions? ;)

I like the strange and unusual facts, they fit my personality better. There's facts about facts that I didn't know were facts, but I learn quickly. ;)

How about some more?

The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting.

All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.

There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

The world's largest K-Mart is on the island of Guam.

A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.

Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith (of the Monkees)'s mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.

Craven Walker invented the lava lamp, and its contents are colored wax and water.

In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard!

The now retired architect, then a draftsman, who drew the plans for the original "Golden Arches" (McDonalds) building in Fontana, California, in the early 1950s, was Charles W. Fish.



I guess I'd better save some for another day. I have to much fun with funny facts. ;)

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