Fun Facts – Page 3 – They're Just Words

Posted on March 3, 2018March 1, 2018 by Patrick

The Little Girl Was Sent By U.S. Mail

FUN FACTS: RANDOM ACTS OF TRIVIA

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

In February of 1914 the Pierstorffs of Grangeville, Idaho sent their five-year-old daughter to visit her grandmother seventy-five miles away in Lewiston via parcel post because it was cheaper than a train ticket. Little Mary Pierstorffs weighed forty-eight pounds, just under the fifty-pound limit. The charge was fifty-three cents and it was attached to the front of her coat.

Searching For Sugar Man

Well, it’s almost March and I hope you still have a bag or two of candy hearts left and that you’re beginning to gather a surplus of jelly beans and other candy treats that only come around every Easter. You see, candy isn’t an occasional thing or an impulse purchase or some kind of fuckin’ reward for getting a C+ on your report card, it’s a way of life, a state of mind, a sweet-and-sour sugary religion. So you need to plan ahead and keep your head on a swivel for candy rarities and bulk purchasing opportunities. Whatever you do, eat some candy every day, be a kid for a minute or two, and remember that the sweet things in life don’t happen for the person who outgrows candy.

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018 by Patrick

Gale Sayers, Vince Lombardi And The Glory Days

Fun Facts: Tossing Around The Football

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

These invisible guys got drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft: Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redmon, Marc Bulger, Tee Martin, Spurgeon Wynn.
Green Bay, Wisconsin is one of the most Catholic regions in the nation. In Lombardi’s day, there were two Catholic high schools, ten Catholic elementary schools, sixteen churches, forty-two-weekday masses and ninety-four masses on Sunday with the first being at 4:30AM.