Archives: Useless Facts

Think of a correctly worded sentence that has every single letter of the English Alphabet.

In the movie “The Great Escape,” the three tunnels were called Tom, Dick and Harry – Harry was the actual escape tunnel.

In the movie “The Great Escape,” what were the names of the three tunnels?

In case you forgot about them, Alaska is actually the farthest north, east, and west. Hawaii is the farthest south!

Of all the States in the United States of America, name the ones that are the farthest East, farthest West, farthest North and farthest South.

In Greek mythology the first woman on Earth was Pandora!

According to Greek mythology who was the first woman on earth?

In the Edgar Allan Poe novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,” the man who lost the draw to see who would be killed for food was named “Richard Parker.” In 1884, the Mignonette, a British sailing yacht, was lost at sea in the South Atlantic. They survivors decided to sacrifice one person so the others might live. His name? “Richard Parker”!!

In the only novel authored by Edgar Allan Poe (“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,” published in 1838) he tells the story of a shipwreck where survivors draw lots to see who will be killed to provide meat so the others can survive. Aside from the obviously uncomfortable premise of the story itself, what happened to make this story even more bizarre?

A group of owls is known as a Parliament.