I do a series called 10 Things on the 10th. Except the 10th was over the weekend when I was busy recovering from the flu and hosing my house down with Lysol. I missed my deadline. Bad blogger!
While I was sick, I didn’t gather a lot of tidbits on a single topic. Truthfully, I didn’t gather much of anything except perhaps tissue boxes. But have no fear, because my family has dubbed me the bottomless pit of useless information. I have trivia to share. And since I’m three days late with the post, I’ll throw in three extra facts.
Call it even?
- Your foot and your forearm are the same lengths.
- Your wingspan matches your height.
- There are exceptions to both of the rules above. Those people are disproportionate.
- The kid who played Benny Rodriguez in The Sandlot is now a firefighter.
- His older brother played grown-up Benny in The Sandlot.
- Utah was originally named Deseret.
- In the movie Back to the Future, Doc Brown mispronounces the word gigawatts.
- The Beatles had a drummer before Ringo. His name was Pete Best.
- C.S. Lewis dictated The Screwtape Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The plus size clothing line Lane Bryant was actually started by a seamstress in NYC named Lena Bryant, who started by making maternity clothes.
- The statue of Nathan Hale at Yale University was not based on what Nathan Hale actually looked like because there are no known portraits of him. Instead, the artist lined up the Yale class (of 1912, I believe) and picked the most regal looking of them and made him model for the statue.
- Billy the Kid wasn’t actually named Billy (or William). He claimed several different identities. His real first named is believed to be Henry.
- The singular of trivia is trivium.
Here’s hoping that next month I won’t be in a virus-induced haze and will post on time. Until then, I hope you at least get some entertainment out of this month’s hodgepodge list. Or that I help you win a game of Trivial Pursuit.
Class dismissed.
K. S. Watts 