It’s time again for another installment of totally useless information.  If you remember all of these tidbits after reading this blog for a year you’ll be declared an Unofficial Trivial Pursuit Expert. Even that game doesn’t include some of the strange and useless stuff found here.

My search will continue to find as many of these stupid and useless facts as possible and forward them along for your amusement.  We humans are a strange folk as reflected by the following:

• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
• During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
• Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
• Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
• In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter”.
• Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.
• A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
• In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds.
• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
• The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

I think my favorite from this list is Pope John Paul II becoming an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.  It’s funny on a number of levels and I can just picture him, robes flapping, doing a Michael Jordan flight to the basket for a truly holy dunk.