Mark Twain didn’t need a flash drive

MARK Twain invented a board game called Mark Twain’s Memory Builder: A Game for Acquiring and Retaining All Sorts of Facts and Dates.

Albert Einstein, on the other hand, never cluttered up his mind with information that could be looked up. When asked if he knew the speed of sound, Einstein said he didn’t carry such information in his mind since it was readily available in books. It is said that he didn’t know his own telephone number.

Here’s some more he wouldn’t have wanted to know.

* The inventor of the AK-47 has said he wishes he’d invented something to help farmers instead – “for example, a lawnmower.”

* The Vatican Bank is the world’s only bank that allows ATM users to perform transactions in Latin.

* The Procrastinators’ Club of America newsletter is called Last Month’s Newsletter.

* A milliHelen is the quantity of beauty required to launch just one ship.

* Sex therapist ‘Dr Ruth’ was trained as a sniper by the Israeli military.

* In Peanuts in 1968, Snoopy trained to become a champion arm-wrestler. In the end, he was disqualified for not having thumbs.

* The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks.

* Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

* There is a word that rhymes with orange! Sporange is a botany term that means ‘spore case’.

* During the Cold War, the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled ‘Medium’ on the Soviets.

* When fruit flies are infected with a parasite, they self-medicate with booze – they seek out food with higher alcohol content.

* In 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess of females and offered the U.S. 10 million Chinese women.

(Useless information from mentalfloss.com.)

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