Fun Facts

What does one blog about when one really wants to blog, but has nothing to blog about?

How about I tell you some really fun and useless facts?

1) "Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category."
     I don't know who this is, but I applaud him and want to read his books.

2) "Karaoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese."
     
3) "The word 'lethological' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want."

4) "The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I Ran the Zoo'."

5) "The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache."

6) "The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a title."

7) "The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets."

8) "The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.' uses every letter in the alphabet."

9) "The first novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer.'"

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