October is National Popcorn Popping Month.
Iron weighs more after it rusts.
Most burglaries occur during the daytime.
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Secure, relatively high-yielding stocks are called blue chip. The name came from the game of poker, where blue chips are more valuable than white or red.
in the Batman comics the Riddler's full real identity is Edward Enigma E Enigma.
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Cartoon character Tweety Pie was originally pink and called Orsen.
October 9 is Moldy Cheese Day.
Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than on the left.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when exposed to light.
An elephants trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.
The first flamingo to be fitted with an artificial leg was a bird only known as B9720, in Lincoln Park Zoo, Illinois. The leg was plastic.
While Singing ion Act II of Boito's Mefistofele at the Casino Theater, Vichy in 1955, Belgian tenor Jan Verbeek swallowed a fake mustache. He was able to continue, but high notes were clearly mire difficult for him, owing to irritation from hairs sticking to the back of his throat.
On August 26, 1996 a man in Sweden became the first to be charged with being drunk in charge of a shopping cart. He was charged after hurtling downhill at 30 mph, after which his cart collided with a car. A police prosecutor said "He was certainly careless, but I suppose it's debatable whether he was driving. But he was rather drunk and his cart wasn't showing proper lights.
October 29 is National Frankenstein Day.
Sources:www.holidayinsights.com; www.alltrivia.net; www.funfunnyfacts.com; www.triviacountry.com; Encyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hartston
