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Today I felt like breaking with my long-held tradition to avoid discussing religion. This will be my gift to all of you believers out there. These facts are interesting and at times ridiculous. Get down on your knees say a prayer or two and drink a large glass of holy water. Let’s get started.
- A Bible published in England in 1632 left out the word “not” in the seventh commandment, making it read “Thou shalt commit adultery.” It became known as “The Wicked Bible.”
- The first Bible to be published in America was in the language of the Algonquian Indians.
- The New Testament was originally written in Greek.
- At six cubits and a span, Goliath’s height was somewhere between nine feet, three inches and eleven feet, nine inches.
- In February of 1964 evangelist Billy Graham broke his lifelong rule against watching television on Sunday – to see the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
- When W.C. Fields was caught glancing through a Bible, he explained it with, “Looking for loopholes.”
- The only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- Brigham Young, the famous Morman leader, married his twenty-seventh, and last wife in 1868.
- Sonny and Cher, at the start of their careers, appeared in Bible advertisements for the American Bible Society.
- Moses was 120 years old when he died. Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, according to Genesis.
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My favorite all time religious trivia fact.
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On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was made an honorary Harlem Globe Trotter.
LET ME HAVE A HUGE AMEN!!
Just another gray, cloudy, rainy, miserable, depressing day. I never thought I would wish for snow, but I’m THIS close.
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it’s known as Tennessee.
- In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
- The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.
- Approximately 40% of guests arriving at a party admit to snooping in the hosts medicine cabinet.
- Catnip is ten times more effective repelling mosquitoes than some of the commercial products containing DEET.
- Hawaii’s state flag is the only US state flag to feature the Union Jack.
- The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache on the deck of standard playing cards.
- In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
- Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, dishwashers, and windshield wipers were all invented by women.
- Water is the thing most often choked upon by Americans.
- The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
- The chance that a dollar bill contains remnants of cocaine is approximately 80%.
- The average life span of a major league baseball is 5 to 7 pitches.
- From groundbreaking to opening day, the original Disneyland was built in just 365 days.
- The word Gorilla comes from a Greek word that means a “tribe of hairy women.”
EVERYUSELESSTHING YOU NEEDED TO KNOW
All those years ago when I started this blog I had difficulty deciding on the proper name for it. After weeks of overthinking and indecision I decided on everyuselessthing. Initially I did a lot of political ranting but that was a wasted effort. Political discussions are to me as boring and useless as discussions of religion and sports. This blog name gave me the freedom to say whatever I wanted about any subject that tweaked my interest. Occasionally I shift gears and blog about unrelated and quirky information I’ve gathered over the years. Trivia is a favorite topic for me and today I’m going to fill your trivia basket with weird and hopefully interesting facts. Here we go . . .
- Sean Connery once worked as a coffin polisher.
- Johnny Mathis dubbed Miss Piggy’s singing voice in The Muppet Movie.
- Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
- The first TV sitcom couple to share a double bed were the Munster’s in 1964.
- The blood in the famous shower scene in Psycho was really Hershey’s chocolate syrup.
- A pigs orgasm lasts for thirty minutes.
- Twelve or more cows are known as a flink.
- There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow.
- The billionth decimal digit of the numerical value pi is nine.
- Woman blink twice as often as men.
That completes the first ten items of this post and hopefully the final ten will be even more useless.
- The first person to refer to a coward as a “chicken” was William Shakespeare.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
- Mark Twain failed to graduate from elementary school.
- President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot had to be removed from his funeral in 1845 because it was swearing.
- Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
- On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- The colors blue, red, yellow, black, and green were chosen for the Olympic Rings because at least one of them appears on the flag of every nation in the world.
- In 1956 the Physical Culture and Sports Commission of communist China recognized the sport of hand-grenade throwing.
- Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring. It is totally white in it’s natural state.
That’s it for today. More trivia lists will follow in the future. Now, I’ve got better things to do like cutting grass and then picking ticks off my body. Who doesn’t love Summer.
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