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 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) baseball team once had a decade-long, 228-game losing streak, lasting from 2003 to 2013. And in 2011, Caltech’s men’s basketball team ended a 310-game conference losing streak. 

- Lobster wasn’t always considered a delicacy . . . before the late 1800s, lobsters were called the “cockroaches of the sea” and fed to prisoners to save money.

- CNN has a video clip ready to air if the world is about to end.  It’s a band playing the song “Nearer, My God, to Thee”.

- There have been more than 20,000 Major League Baseball players in history and just ONE had a last name that started with the letter X:  Leovigildo Xiqués, who played in the ‘40s. There are 56 whose last name started with Q, and 106 with Z.

- There are 11 U.S. states that only have one area code:  Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.