Read this and you will be smarter...or more informed.

I was bored at work tonight and decided to give you all a bit of useless information....


The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

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.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women.

Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. A. Honey

40 percent of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.

For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.

Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

Now if any of you win a game show from one of these facts I would like you to remember me.

I bake because...well, a boy told me I needed a hobby.

Recently a friend of mine, whom I will refer to as Irish, informed me that I needed to get some hobbies. This came about during one of our lengthy conversations regarding our antisocial tendencies. While we discussed cures for common loneliness he asked me what my hobbies were and that maybe I should get more. I have a good size list of hobbies, some of which being camping, travel, photography, shopping etc. The problem with those particular hobbies is that they are best done in groups. Which brings us back to the entire point of the conversation; hermit like behaviors and lack of friends. He informed me I need hobbies that can be done alone. I informed him that I regularly sing in the shower and while blow-drying my hair. This is something I enjoy doing so surely it must count as a hobby. He wasn't impressed. So now I am subjecting my family, girls I visit teach, and elders quorum presidency to baked goods. I hope they all gain twenty pounds.