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08/21/2025 “A TRIVIA MISH MOSH”   Leave a comment

This blog is titled Every Useless Thing and I’m feeling today that you all must certainly need a huge dose of useless information. Just when I thought I’ve heard the weirdest s**t possible I just keep finding more and more and more. After all the years of my doing trivia it still amazes me how often I find things that boggle my mind. Let’s see if that will happen to you today.

  • The waist produced by a single chicken in its lifetime could supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
  • The odds of being struck by lightning are one in 10 million.
  • Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
  • In 1992 convicted killer Robert Alton Harris stated just before entering the gas chamber: “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
  • The highest score ever achieved for one word in a Scrabble competition was 392 for the word caziques down two triple-word scores.

  • Mike Love, Pancho Villa, and Zsa Zsa Gabor were each married nine times.
  • Groucho Marx ate his first bagel at the age of 81..
  • Harrison Ford’s first film role was as a bellboy and his only line was “Paging Mr. Ellis”. Ellis was played by James Coburn.
  • Click Eastwood, Yasser Arafat, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Swayze, Sting, Luciana Pavarotti, Rowan Atkinson, and Ted Kennedy all survived plane crashes.
  • The odds of being killed in a road accident are one in 15,800.

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One of My Favorite Bands

The rock group 3 Dog Night obtained their name from an old Australian saying. “On a freezing night in the outback, a man would need to sleep with one dog to keep warm on a cold night, two dogs on a very cold night and three dogs on the coldest night.”

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07/24/2025 “POP CULTURE”   Leave a comment

Today is a good day for a little innocent and harmless pop culture trivia. Whenever I find something odd or strange that catches my interest I make note of it and today is the day that I’m going to publish some of those notes. Some are interesting and some not so much. You decide.

  • Although Sean Connery played Harrison Ford’s father in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Connery is just 12 years older than Ford.
  • Among the actors who auditioned for the Han Solo role in the original Star Wars were Kurt Russell, Robert Englund, and even Sylvester Stallone.
  • The state of Maine is really a popular state for fictional murders. It has been used as the setting for a surprising number of mysteries and thrillers by Stephen King.
  • According to legend, hard rocking band Alice Cooper chose their name after using a Ouija board to communicate with a spirit named Alice Cooper.
  • Yoda from Star Wars, the cookie monster from Sesame Street, and Miss Piggy from the Muppet Show were all voiced by the same person, Frank Oz.

  • Sir Paul McCartney once released an album under the name Thrills Thrillington.
  • Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings because he didn’t understand the script.
  • In the Wizard of Oz movie, the dog playing Toto was paid an actual salary of $125 a week. Ironically this was more money than many of the film actors were paid.
  • The first interracial kiss in television history happened on Star Trek.

And last but not least . . . .

  • Actor Nicolas Cage was named after the comic book hero Luke Cage. Oddly enough my youngest grandson was named Cage after Nicolas Cage.

POP GOES THE WEASEL