National Trivia Day

It’s National Trivia Day. Here are ten bits of useless information.



One of Adolf Hitler’s nephews came to the US, joined the navy, and fought his uncle’s army in WWII. His descendants live on Long Island.
Former President Bill Clinton once correctly answered three questions about My Little Pony on the NPR radio show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.
Taylor Swift won more awards at the 2010 Grammy’s than Elvis Presley did in his entire career.
The Germans have a word for emotionally based overeating: kummerspeck, which translates to “grief bacon.”
666 isn’t only the Mark of the Beast–it’s also the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel.
Horses can’t vomit.
A pheromone in male mouse urine that stimulates sexual attraction in a female to that particular male was named Darcin—after Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Obsession for Men, by Calvin Klein, is used by photographers in the wild to attract big cats into camera range.
Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
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Published on January 04, 2017 03:00
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