If you’re like me, you hold on to trivial (aka useless) knowledge in the event a perfect conversation happens wherein dropping this knowledge will make me look like I’m smarter than I am, then here are some facts to commit to memory...

There have been times when REAL news that breaks on April 1st gets dismissed as an April Fools’ Day prank.  Examples include:  The murder of Marvin Gaye in 1984 . . . the murder of Selena in 1995 . . . the death of Mitch Hedberg in 2005 . . . and the cancellation of “Guiding Light” in 2009.

The highest point in Connecticut is on a mountain called Mount Frissell.  But it’s not even the peak of the mountain beacuase that’s across the border in Massachusetts.

Ikea started as a mail-order business that sold pencils and postcards.

One pound of dimes and one pound of quarters are worth the same amount.  Two hundred dimes weigh one pound and are worth $20... 80 quarters weigh one pound and are worth $20.

Dinosaurs existed before flowers.  Scientists believe flowering plants evolved as a response to dinosaurs because plants needed protection against vegetarian dinosaurs. So they developed toxic flowers, then eventually evolved to have nontoxic flowers once the dinosaurs were gone.

(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / First Versions / Smart Capital Mind / ABC News Australia)