Every Wednesday, I bring you useless information made up of COMPLETELY TRUE FACTS.
Shortly before her death in 1998, Shari Lewis, evil overlord of beloved puppet Lamb Chop, confessed to some very strange things. Among them: the overthrow of Mussolini, agrarian communism, cultivating deadly yogurt bacteria, selling tapeworm pills in the 1910’s, and the downfall of [...]
Every Wednesday, I bring you a piece of information that you couldn’t possibly use.
Feather boas have been worn since approximately the 18th century or so, give or take a century. Every couple decades, they regain popularity and you start to see them for a while, then they go away. Glam rock in the 70’s and [...]
The three most popular names for Saint Petersburg, Russia, are Saint Petersburg (duh), Petrograd, and Leningrad. These names, of course, are generally regarded as the only names for the city. Until fairly recently, this was thought to be the case. In 1937, a young Sir Edmund Hillary discovered a document listing other former names for [...]
Every Wednesday, I bring you a singular piece of information made up of COMPLETELY TRUE FACTS.
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and served from 1909-1913. He was from, as most of you know, Cincinnati, OH and holds the dubious title of having the FATTEST ASS of any President of ANYWHERE, [...]
Every Wednesday afternoon, I bring you a completely useless bit of information that is completely made up of ABSOLUTELY TRUE FACTS.
In 1873, Ulysses S. Grant began his second term as President of the United States in the face of a crisis having to do with currency. This crisis is often referred to as “The [...]
Every Wednesday, I bring you a piece of fascinating, useless information.
Sometime around the dawn of the Internet, someone began publicizing, in the form of email forwards, a little paragraph about how people read words. Anyone remember that? Here it is:
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Winnie the Pooh was a real bear. He was purchased by a Canadian serviceman from a hunter in Ontario for $20 (presumably in Canadian dollars). The serviceman [...]
Every Wednesday, usually in the afternoon, I bring you a bit of interesting, but completely useless, information.
The late Lee J. Cobb was succeeded by the also late George C. Scott somewhat regularly through his career. Scott played Juror #3 in the television remake of 12 Angry Men, filled in for a somewhat [...]
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I heard somewhere that Charles Bukowski’s physician once told him to quit drinking completely, or he was going to die. As a result, he cut down to a gallon of beer a day. Now, know that I’m not [...]