Do you have any useless trivia?

learned this in elementary school and it's been in my head ever since.

a mile is 5280 feet long.

and I almost have to get paper and pencil out to determine how many yards that is?!

and if you pick a guinea pig up by its tail, its eyes will fall out.
 
never took trig in HS. didn't even need college algebra to get degree in elementary education. was working with middle school students (classroom support in a pre-geometry class. that whole since, cosine, tangent thing... stuff you'll never use... could never remember that stuff. then teacher told class (including me) the story of Chief Soh Cah Toa. I can't remember the story BUT... Soh is sine = opposite/hypotenuse... Cah is cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse... Toa is tangent = opposite/adjacent.
 
Shakespeare certainly had his lighter side. He liked to put jokes in his plays, even in his tragedies, and he also made up phrases that we still use today, such as “melted into thin air”, “wild goose chase”, “I haven’t slept a wink”, and “break the ice”.

Shakespeare was also very handy with insults, conjuring up some fierce put-downs, such as:
"Thine face is not worth sunburning." "Thou art as fat as butter." And who could forget:
"You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!" Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2.
 
Who was the only pitcher to hit a homerun his first time at bat and then never hit another one with 432 at bats.

I won 2 tickets to see an Orioles game on the local radio station on that question thanks to my dad, who was a huge Orioles fan. The seats were right directly behind home plate. You would think they were great seats, but they were only so-so in my book. I also was given $100 in Oriole Bucks, which could be used for food, souvenirs or anything that the Orioles sold. This was back in 1975. Yeah, I took dad along since he gave me the answer. He was on seventh Heaven.

My dad knew Brooks Robinson personally and he invited us back into the clubhouse after the game, but the usher wouldn't let us go down into the clubhouse. We started walking away and Brooks came out and yelled to my dad to come on back and he told the usher to let us through. All that I remember about the clubhouse was that it smelled terrible.

So now, you at least know it was an Oriole's pitcher.
 
The saying - See you in a jiffy
A “jiffy” is about one trillionth of a second.
For physicists, a jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. That means that there are about three hundred thousand billion billion jiffys in a second
 
The chocolate jelly beans the easter bunny makes himself don't taste nearly as good as the storebought kind.
 

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