These are 10 items that are truly miscellaneous. As I gather all of my trivia together there are always a few things that can’t be categorized, and I thought I’d share some of them with you today. Here they are . . .

• Charles E Weller is best known for a single sentence he created, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” It was invented for use as a typing exercise.

• The original name of the Girl Scouts was the “Girl Guides’.

• Robert L. Ripley was the first person inducted into the National Trivia Hall of Fame in 1980.

• Did you know that the only two letters that are not on a telephone are the Q & Z.

• The initials M. G. On the famous British automobile stand for the Morris Garage.

• It was in 153 B.C. the Romans first marked January 1st as the beginning of the new year.

• How many of you know that the group motto for the Salvation Army is “Blood & Fire”?

• The middle day of a non-leap year year is July 2nd. There’s 182 days before it, and 182 after it.

• Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Gen. George Patton were dyslexic?

• In 1871 the rickshaw was invented by American Baptist missionary Jonathan Goble. He had a Japanese carpenter build the original rickshaw for his invalid wife in Yokohama.

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