Useless Information Day

1. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Barbie’s measurements if she were life-size would be 5’9ii tall, 33-18-31 ½.

2. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are in Canadians in Canada.

3. Totally Hair Barbie is the best-selling Barbie of all times.

4. In 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head.

5. The hula-hoop was the biggest selling toy in 1957.

6. The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.

7. The Slinky is sold on every continent of the world except Antarctica. If you took a standard Slinky and stretched it out would measure eighty-seven feet.

8. When the divorce rate does up in the USA, toys makers say the sale of toys also rises.

Autumnal Equinox

OOOH and this actually occurs tomorrow and not today....
According to Wikipedia:
“An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. The term equinox can also be used in a broader sense, meaning the date when such a passage happens. The name "equinox" is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day are approximately equally long. It may be better understood to mean that latitudes +L and -L north and south of the Equator experience nights of equal length.
At an equinox, the Sun is at one of two opposite points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator (i.e. declination 0) and ecliptic intersect. These points of intersection are called equinoctial points: classically, the vernal point and the autumnal point. By extension, the term equinox may denote an equinoctial point.
An equinox happens each year at two specific moments in time (rather than two whole days), when there is a location on the Earth's equator where the center of the Sun can be observed to be vertically overhead (in astronomical terms, the subsolar point), occurring around March 20/21 and September 22/23 each year.”

Useless Information Day

In 1876, the average man in the U.S. stood 5'5" tall, 4" shorter than today's average. Half of that increase has been since 1960, according to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services - since then men are on average 2" taller.

Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

Over 52.4 % of Boulder, Colorado citizens have a bachelor's degree making it the highest educated city in the United States.

One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.

Useless Information Day

• Sitcom characters rarely say good-bye when they hang up the phone.
• Of the six med who made up The Three Stooges over the years, only three of them were real brothers.
• The first televised murder case aired December 5 through 9, 1955.
• The Brady Bunch kids went to elementary school at Dixie Canyon Elementary.
• The characters of Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life
• Every episode of Seinfeld contains a Superman reference somewhere.
• Wilma Flinstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s was Betty Jean McBricker.
• The Simpsons is the longest-running animated series on TV.

Useless Information Day

More useless information:

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

Toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans. Every year, more than 8,800 people injure themselves in some way with a toothpick.

On average, one hundred people chock on ballpoint pen every year.

Forty thousand Americans are injured by toilets every year.

1990, there were about Fifteen thousand vacuum cleaner—related accidents in the United States.

Next time think twice about using a toothpick or sitting on the Royal Thorn.

Useless Information Day

Since everyone else has “Thankful Thursdays,” “Manic Mondays,” “Jam of the Day” and other fun corky posts I decided that I will have “Useless Information Day.” So every week it doesn’t matter what day of the week it is I’m going to post trivial information that had no use at all except to say, “Huh? I didn’t know that today.”
So here we go the first useless information:

• A prestidigitator is another word for magician.
• A castrated rooster is called a capon.
• A conchologist studies mollusks and shells.
• A deltiologist collects postcards.
• A fingerprint is also known as a dactylogram.
• A klazomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
And my favorite,
• A librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.

Now, next time you are thinking of a weird large word you can use one of these ☺