The Book
Of the Most Useful-Useless Information
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Its in the book.
Jim Nelson
Did you know? Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
"When possums are playingpossium, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.
"In the 1940s, the FCC assigned televisions channel 1 to mobile services, two-way radios in taxicabs, etc. They never did assign any other channels. Thats why our TVs today start with channel 2.
"Hersheys Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.
"The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when horses pulled the fire engines. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight stairways.
"The only two days of the year that do not have any professional sports games, MLB, NBA, NHL, or the NFL are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
I have not failed. Ive just found ten thousand ways that wont
work. Thomas Edison
