You know what I also really, really love?

I loooove trivia! 

When I’m in the mall waiting for my companions (usually my titas, especially these past few months) and I have already given up all ways of using magic and other witchcraft to fill up my empty wallet (so that I can actually purchase something and make the energy I use for window shopping worthwhile), I resort to staying at the bookstore.

National Bookstore, Fully Booked, Power Books, Book Sale, it doesn’t matter. I make any bookstore my sanctuary when I get overwhelmed by crowds and crowds of people at the mall. HAHAHA I’m such a nerd.

So what do I do when I’m inside a bookstore? I read trivia books! HAHAHA I really am such a nerd.

If I can think of something I can be proud of from back in my gradeschool days, it certainly wouldn’t be my fashion sense (hello, baggy shirts and elephant jeans). Or my love for the Spice Girls. Heck no. I guess it would have to be—and please allow me to sound a little swanky (HAHAHA) for a couple of minutes—the gold medals I got from General Information Quiz Bees. 

Back then the main highlight of our school’s Founders celebration were the quiz bees. Answering questions prompted over the microphone by the host, students in each level would get to compete with each other in front of a large audience. There were several categories for those quiz bees: Math (of course I was a loser in that), Science (not interested either), Spelling (don’t care hahaha) and General Information, of which—allow the swanky me please—I was le boss.

General Information quiz bees were all about trivia. And, yeah, I think we have already established how much I love trivia. How much I love asking Did you know that?…to anyone who cares. How much I love knowing unique and sometimes bizarre facts before anyone else does and being able to say something like “Ha, I knew that alreadyyyy!!!” in an in-your-face way (And that’s still the swanky me talking, of course).   

So over the years I have already accumulated quite a number of random facts that I have found quite interesting. And I might as well share some of them here:

• Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.

• Outerspace officially begins 100km above sea level.
• Chang is the most common surname in the world.
• A Giraffe has the highest blood pressure among animals.
• The Pieta is the only work that Michelangelo ever signed.
• A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.  
• John Denver died on a plane crash after popularizing the song Leaving on a Jet Plane.

• The world’s most overdue book borrowed from a library was returned 211 years late.
• The Cure for Insomnia is the longest movie ever made with a total running time of 87 hours.
• The hottest chili in the world is the Habanero.

• Avocado is the most nutritious fruit.
• A shark has no bones.
• French fries were invented in Belgium.
• Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was a nyctophobe or afraid of the dark.

• The last Dodo Bird died in 1681.

• Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages during World War I.

• The eyes of Star Wars character Master Yoda was patterned after Albert Einstein’s.

• US President Harry S. Truman did not have a middle name.
• Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
• Leprosy is the oldest known disease, dating back to 1350 B.C.
• Voltaire, the French philosopher, drank about 50 cups of coffee a day.
• Eating Bananas makes you a target of mosquitoes.
• The human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is decapitated.
• Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

• Ludwig van Beethoven sometimes poured a bucket of ice cold water over his head before sitting down to compose music.
• Adolf Hitler was the 1938 Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.

• The face of the queen in the deck of playing cards was modeled after Elizabeth of York.

• Charles Dickens wrote all his works facing north.
• Tooth decay is the most common disease in the world.
• There are more chickens in the world than humans.
• Backgammon is the oldest board game in the world.  

So yeah. I decided not to add back-up information in the things I listed. Not that I’m being lazy (again). I just leave it to you to Google them for yourself. :)