I love useless facts of interest, and if you could get qualifications in General Knowledge, I’d have a got a Doctorate years ago 
- The first coin operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century AD.
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If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
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The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
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Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. In 1868, a lantern with red and green signals was used at a London intersection to control the flow of horse buggies and pedestrians.
All from, and loads more at Wonderfulinfo.com. Are they all true facts? I don’t know, but they are interesting….
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A doctorate in General Knowledge?
Wow.
I have the same affliction: I recall all sorts of useless trivia but not where I put my cell phone. But my wife refers to me as a “garbarge brain.”
I’m going to try and have her call me Herr Doktor henceforth.
She’ll call you something….
I find the hoover dam one a bit hard to believe. Interesting I guess, though.
I know what you mean, but it’s one of those pointless facts you’d love to be true
“The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.”
Maybe I should have got their builders to put up my shed instead of doing it myself. It’s been up three weeks and its falling to pieces already.