For those interested, I’ve cached this list of 1244 items of trivia. Not all are that great, but there are some real jems. Here’s a few:

13. Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persian the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.

24. All English men over 14 are meant to carry out 2 hours (or so) of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy. [I wonder if readers Al and Robin are aware of this? 🙂 ]

28. An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.

54. Cats have a normal body temperature of 101.5. A dog’s is 101.

97. Everyone is familiar with the RCA logo with Nipper the dog listening to the RCA gramophone. But the original picture had both the dog and the gramophone sitting on his dead master’s casket. The idea being that the closest thing to his dead master’s voice was the RCA gramophone. The ad was eventually considered too morbid and they removed the casket.

And here’s one for Timmer:

1052. Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.

Have fun. 🙂