Facts about the good old U.S. of A. and the 50 states, including geography and history.
Facts about animals, animal companions and companion-challenged creatures.
Details about art, artists, popular culture, music, films, actors, and similar diversions.
Useless facts about stars, planets, space, and other places you will never visit.
Things you might not know about people you will never meet, most of whom are dead anyway.
Not so important facts about our favorite planet (except for that one Mr. Spock is from, maybe).
Stuff about food and why it might kill you to eat some of it (although you still ought to eat, maybe).
Mostly useless information about human beings and the bodies we all inhabit for now.
Juicy tidbits of fact about the everyday items we all take for granted.
Laws you could be breaking, and legal stuff that probably won't help you when you get caught.
Scientific facts that probably won't help you do anything, except use up neuropathways.
Facts that probably won't help you much in the garden.
Some facts about politcs and elections, just in case you weren't already apathetic.
Useless information about U.S. Presidents and their sordid lives.
Weird things that have happened in the U.S. that probably won't affect you in any way.
Some facts about words, their origins, what they mean, and why we don't let animals use them.
Weird things that have happened in the world. that probably won't affect you in any way.
Generally Useless Facts that defy these useless catagories.
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Generally Useless Facts
Art and Culture GUF
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Mosaic was the first internet browser that permitted the internet as we now know it. Released on April 23, 1993 (four years after the world wide web), Mosaic allowed web pages to show graphics, photos, text styles, and formatting. Before then, web pages were all text with links.
Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime.
The song we know as "Happy Birthday" was written by Mildred and Patty Smith Hill in 1893 as "Good Morning to All." The current lyrics were added in 1924.
Dr. Suess wrote Green Eggs and Ham because of a bet that he couldn't write a book that used only 50 words. He won.
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, the creature is not given a name. Frankenstein refers to it variously as "fiend," "monster," and "devil," among other terms. However, the creature sees himself as Adam after reading Paradise Lost.
Elvis never gave an encore.
The Mona Lisa is painted on poplar boards, not canvas.
Rodin’s statue known as The Thinker is actually a statue of the poet Dante.
Shirley Temple always had exactly 56 curls in her hair in every one of her childhood movies.
The real name for the portrait known as the "Mona Lisa" is actually La Giaconda.
300,000 extras were used for the film Gandhi in 1981, the most in any movie.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
Napoleon’s soldiers used Leonardo’s painting of the Last Supper for target practice.
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, hated carrots. Every time Bugs chews them in a cartoon, it's really Mel chewing carrots--nothing else sounded right. He then spit them in a wastebasket.
If Barbie were life-sized, her measurements would be 39-23-33
The bagpipe probably originated in Mesopotania in ancient times, was used by ancient Greeks and Romans, and was brought to Britain by the Romans.
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