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Of the Most Useful-Useless Information

Jim Nelson
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Pages
396
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
Xlibris US

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Did you know? Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

"When possums are playing possum, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.

"In the 1940s, the FCC assigned televisions channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, etc. They never did assign any other channels. That’s why our TVs today start with channel 2.

"Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.

"The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when horses pulled the fire engines. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stairways.

"The only two days of the year that do not have any professional sports games, MLB, NBA, NHL, or the NFL are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison

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