I think that my brain is full of useless facts. When I was a kid, I used to leaf through our World Books for entertainment purposes. I also liked the Book of Lists. It had a lists of weird facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Lists
I was especially interested in spontaneous combustion. It really blew my little pea brain. I think the spontaneous combustion fed my morbid fascination very well. I also had a Helen Keller fixation as well. I penned a dramatic story (the ones you illustrated with cardboard covers covered with contact paper) that starred a blind girl who gets Scarlet fever and then goes deaf as well (and to add insult to injury, she transmits Scarlet fever to a baby bird that she found). I think my teacher must have thought I was insane. I also was paranoid that I would go blind overnight like Mary in Little House on the Prarie. Was I the only freaky kid, or do I have company??????
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I love useless facts! Have you ever read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series? Wonderfully useless stuff in there :)
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