Here we go with another dose of trivia from mental_floss:
--Cleveland last won a major league sports championship in 1964. Since then, neither the NFL's Browns, NBA's Cavaliers, AL's Indians, nor the short-lived NHL's Barons have won the world championship. Tough town to be a sports fan!
--Then again, you have the Detroit Lions. They haven't won a single play-off game in 50 years. They won the NFL Championship three times between 1953-57, but none since. Thank goodness for the Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings! (And this year HAS to be the year of the Red Wings!)
--Zippy Chippy is the losingest thoroughbred in America's history. In 100 lifetime races he placed in 8 and showed in 12, but never came in first.
--More Americans watched the King's "Elvis--Aloha From Hawaii, Via Satellite" concert on TV in 1973 than tuned in for the first moon landing in 1969.
--Elvis is ranked #2 on Forbes' Richest Deceased Celebrity list in 2006. (He was #1 from 2000-2005, then knocked down by Kurt Cobain.)
--Victor Willis, a member of The Village People (and the only one who was NOT gay), was married to Phylicia Rashad (aka Claire Huxtable.)
--Elvis only played five concerts in a foreign country--all in Canada in 1957.
--Casu Marzu, or 'rotten cheese,' a delicacy found in Sardinia, Italy features the larvae (read that as MAGGOTS) of the Piophila casei (a fly.) Italian health authorities and the European Union advise against eating the stuff. DUH!
--A quintillion is a "1" followed by 18 zeroes.
--Carlos Santana was the first Hispanic to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
--Johnny Carson joked about an imminent shortage of toilet paper during his monologue--this while talking about the gas shortage in 1973--and caused panicked viewers to go on a hoarding spree, emptying shelves. Carson was forced to publicly apologize the following night.
--The northernmost point in the 48 contiguous states lies in Minnesota. The Northwest Angle is an isolated piece of land that juts up into Canada.
--The average female opossum has 13 nipples. They are arranged in a circular pattern with one in the middle.
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