If you’re like me, you hold on to trivial (aka useless) knowledge in the event a perfect conversation happens wherein dropping this knowledge will make me look like I’m smarter than I am, then here are some facts to commit to memory...
The first thing anyone bought online in a secure retail transaction was Sting’s CD “Ten Summoner’s Tales” in 1994. A guy from Philadelphia bought it from a company called Net Market in New Hampshire.
Walt Disney did the original voice of Mickey Mouse. He stopped after 17 years when he got too busy and had to turn it over to someone else.
There’s a word in Japanese for a person who buys more books than they could ever possibly read. It’s “tsundoku.”
Dogs are banned on Antarctica. It’s because of a fear they could spread diseases to the native seals there.
According to a 2023 Ipsos survey, Cornhole is the most-played sport in America . . . ahead of bowling, swimming, and golf.
Red Delicious apples used to be the most common variety of apples in the U.S. but they became increasingly unpopular as they were bred for LOOKS over TASTE. Now, Gala apples are the most common, and Red Delicious are #2.
Buzz Aldrin was the first person to PEE on the moon. He peed into a special bag in his suit while he was out on the Moon but it broke, so the liquid collected in one of his boots.
Humans aren’t very nutritious to eat. We’re only about 650 calories per pound of muscle. Animals like boars and beavers have 1,800 calories in a pound of muscle.
The used car chain CarMax was created by Circuit City in 1991. They split it off into a second company in 2002 . . . and it’s still going strong, while Circuit City died in 2009.
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