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Daily Trivia

What do you want an extra room for?

on Jan 1, 2026

The one extra room new-home shoppers want the most is the laundry room, at 95 percent. Only 66 percent of new-home buyers request an extra room to use as an office.

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Is there a Mexico in the U.S?

Daily Trivia / December 31, 2025

Many cities in our country bear the names of other countries. The U.S. city of Mexico can be found in the states of Indiana, Maine, and Missouri.

Major-league baseball clubs didn't start putting numbers on uniforms until the 1930s. As a result, Ty Cobb, who broke many batting and base-stealing records while playing with the Detroit Tigers (1905-1926), didn't have ...Read More

Does the computer eat your data?

Daily Trivia / December 31, 2025

Thirty-two percent of computer data loss cases are due to human error.

Where was the world's first underground railway?

Daily Trivia / December 31, 2025

The world's first underground railway, between Paddington (Bishop's Road) and Farringdon Street - with trains hauled by steam engines - was opened by the Metropolitan Railway on January 10th 1863. The initial section was ...Read More

How tall was Attila the Hun?

Daily Trivia / December 30, 2025

Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory of Tours, Charles III of Naples, and Pasha Hussain were all less than three and a half feet tall.

Was the Boxing Day tradition to help the poor?

Daily Trivia / December 30, 2025

An 'Alms Box' was placed in every church on Christmas Day, into which worshippers placed a gift for the poor of the parish. These boxes were always opened the day after Christmas, which is why that day became know as ...Read More