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.
- Shakespeare invented the name Jessica in “The Merchant of Venice”.
- If you have two arms, you have an above average number of arms. How? Almost no one has more than two arms, but some people have zero or one. That means the average number of arms worldwide is just slightly less than two.
- Every letter in English is silent in at least one word except for the letter “V”
- The traditional national sport of Turkey is grease wrestling. Two guys cover themselves in olive oil and win the match by pinning their opponent or lifting him up and carrying him three steps.
- Over the next decade, the following copyrighted works will enter the public domain: Popeye . . . Pluto . . . Donald Duck . . . King Kong (the original movie version) . . . Superman . . . Daffy Duck . . . James Bond . . . Batman . . . Captain Marvel . . . plus Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and others from “The Hobbit”.
