Trivia Fun Returns!

President Arthur Started Taco Tuesdays

In days of yore I brought joy and surcease to the world through my daily tweets of #TriviaFun. A few years ago on this very blog I published fifty of the best of #TrivaFun to great acclaim, hoopla and enthusiastic excitement. It is my privilege to now share with you a more modest list of entertaining trivia and will tease readers by saying that there could be more to come. Meanwhile, please enjoy today's offering. (Note: all the trivia below has been independently verified either by the National Geographic Society, the National Archives, The Library of Congress, NASA, the Senate Sub-Committee on Trivia or the gang down at Joe's Beanery on 5th and Pine.)

According to the FBI, 75% of all missing persons have probably been abducted by aliens.

Biblical scholars believe that in addition to betraying Jesus, Judas was a lousy tipper.

The musical “Hello Dolly” was originally to be about a small ornamental paper with a lace pattern and was to be called “Hello Doily.”

Chester Alan Arthur was the president who started the White House tradition of Taco Tuesdays.

According to recently declassified government documents, at the time of his death Osama Bin Laden was playing Yahtzee.

Gophers have over 100 words for dirt.

Before peanuts and cracker jacks were sold at ballparks, most vendors hawked beets or crayfish.

Babe Ruth once hit a pop up so high that by the time it came down it was caught for the first out of the next day’s game.

According to a recent statistical study approximately 73.8% of all statistical studies are wrong.

For successful completion of their first assignment, Mafia hitmen receive a commemorative tote bag.

Zoologists use OMG to refer to overly-medicated giraffes.

Charles Dickens’ working title for Great Expectations was Pretty Good Expectations.

CIA headquarters has a top of the line daycare center.

The Donner Party served a mixed green salad and steamed potatoes as a side dish.

It is estimated that fifty per cent of all visitors to Washington DC mistakenly believe that the Jefferson Memorial honors the TV show, The Jeffersons.

As originally played, American football teams had a one-third back.

It is believed that no one has ever watched the Comedy Central program Tosh.0.

A spin-off of Hollywood Squares called Burbank Circles failed miserably.

In Europe, the poet Ezra Pound was known as Ezra Kilogram.

Ford Motor Company offered to sponsor the D-Day invasion.

In 1970 Mr. Montague Python of Huddersfield, England unsuccessfully sued the Monty Python’s Flying Circus for defamation.

The Philadelphia Story’s original title, The Schenectady Story, did not test well with audiences.

While Francophobia is the fear and contempt of the French, Frankophobia is the fear and contempt of people named Frank.

Mao Tse Tung’s younger brother, Kyle, was an Elvis impersonator.

Gerald Ford held a seance in the White House and reportedly had long chats with Calvin Coolidge and W.C. Fields about foreign policy.

According to presidential historians, Bess Truman's safe word was, "girdle."

A great believer in reincarnation, Kaiser Wilhelm insisted that someday he'd come back as a K-pop star.