If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

Bill Bryson

Tag: health trivia supplements vitamin-c



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A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").

Bill Bryson

Tag: trivia sleep-tight



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Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume first edition, you can hit your nerd buzzer and say "wrong!").

Amy Elizabeth Smith

Tag: humor literature austen trivia



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The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

James Herron

Tag: time culture trivia



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I poked him in the chest. 'First of all, yes, it was. Lacy cards and love tokens were widely exchanged even in Victorian times. By now, you should know better than to screw with me on historical trivia.

Molly Harper

Tag: trivia valentines-day



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I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all.

Harriet Blaine

Tag: intelligence curiosity quotes trivia anti-intellectualism



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When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

David Brinkley

Tag: media popular-culture trivia context



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