Just A Guy Thing

While online reference service Wikipedia can be incredibly informative, it’s also chock full of absolutely useless facts. Helpfully, all the useless trivia has now been compiled in a new book called Stupedia.

Here are 10 pieces of useless information from the book:

1. McDonald’s signs once had only one golden arch.
2. Laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships mean it is possible for a person born on a British ship, anchored in a United States port, with a Chinese father and Turkish mother, to have quadruple nationality.
3. South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-storey car park, was converted to lofts ? and residents complained about a lack of parking.
4. The World Snail Racing Championships were held annually for more than 40 years, with only the 2007 event cancelled due to inclement weather.
5. Captain Philip Beaver once read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica during one of his cruises.
6. Squab is the meat from a young domestic pigeon.
7. The Winchester Bible ? the largest surviving 12th-century English bible ? incorporated the skins of 250 calves.
8. The broadhead catfish, which is a carnivore, can be fed with rice bran.
9. Pierre the penguin is the first bird to don a custom-made wetsuit (to combat bald spots).
10. Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class at the Liverpool Institute High School For Boys.

For even more inane information, check out Stupedia: The Most Useless Facts on Wikipedia.