Here’s your first dose of totally useless information (Trivia) for 2016.  I can only assume many of you readers will be spending some time this year in your tavern of choice and many of you will attempt to participate in some sort of Trivia challenge or bar bet. Since it’s obvious to me from some of the emails and comments I receive that many of you drink regularly you will probably need these factoids to help you out a little. This information is my New Year’s gift to you so let’s get started with a few items about the Internet.

• The time spent deleting spam emails costs U.S. Businesses approximately $10 billion annually.
• The highest publicly reported amount paid for a domain name is $7.5 million in stock options, to buy business.com.
• Thirty-five billion emails are sent each day throughout the world.
• Thirty-two percent of all singles think they will meet their mate online.
• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

Now for a few more interesting facts concerning our new beat friends . . . our cell phones. 

• More than fifty percent of the people on the earth have never made or received a telephone call.
• Approximately 1,314 phone calls are misplaced by telecom services every minute.
• There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one for every two human beings in the country.
• As much as eighty percent of microwaves from cell phones are said to be absorbed by your head.
• A Belgian couple were married by short message service (SMS) because text messaging played such a big part in their relationship.

Now for what you’ve all been waiting for. A few tidbits of information on our ever so interesting and at times nasty bodily functions.

• The average heart beats 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.
• The body gives off enough heat in thirty minutes to bring a gallon of water to a boil.
• A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
• A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands. There are about one trillion bacteria on each foot.
• During a kiss, as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
• The body loses  half a liter of water a day through breathing.

This was just the first of many trivia postings you can expect this year. I think it’s time for this blog to start living up to it’s name. You can’t have too much useless information in your life and I’m here to guarantee that you get yours.