Your favourite random facts/interesting trivia...

Question

Hi,

I am about to start doing a radio show on local radio and I plan to have a trivia section. It would be very easy to just Google 'random trivia funny facts' or similar but I thought I could get more informed and interesting stuff from you guys. So - don't let me down! What's your favourite piece of funny/interesting/random and TRUE trivia?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

John L. O'Sullivan coined the term manifst destiny

Judy Resnik-2nd American Woman in Space, 1st Jewish Astronaut, died on the challenger

The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations-official state name with the most letters

Green Bay Packers-only publicly owned NFL team

William Makepeace Thackery-wrote Vanity Fair, has an awesome middle name

Boutros Boutros-Gahli-1st African Secretary general of UN

Jesse Owens-Broke or tied 4 world records in 45 min. at the Big Ten championships in Ann Arbor, MI

Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada

Cleveland used to be spelled Cleaveland, was changed to fit on a newspaper better

The 1st NFL champions-Akron Professionals

PREDATOR-The only movie to star 2 future state governors, Jesse Ventura of Minn. and Arnold of CA.

Answer 2

http://www.randomfactsuselesstrivia.com/

Answer 3

http://paulsquiz.com/Did_you_know - that's what you want.

There's around six sub pages too with lots of facts for you. Some of them seem ridiculous but they are all true. I have used them in a trivia quiz and researched them - they are totally accurate.