Typical Topics That I Have Written About:

In over 30 years of writing at least 7,000 word of great trivia content per month, I have covered a LOT of topics. Here is a non-exhaustive list of many!

Typical

  • A&P Grocery Stores
  • Advertising
  • Air pollution
  • Airplane quiz
  • Airplanes
  • Alcatraz prison
  • Alcohol origins
  • Amazon forest
  • Amber the gemstone
  • Amusement parks
  • Antarctica
  • April fools jokes
  • Arctic
  • Arctic disasters
  • Arctic Explorers
  • Area codes
  • Atmosphere 
  • Avalanche
  • Avalanche train disaster
  • Backwards things
  • Bad Art
  • Bad baseball plays
  • Bad Days
  • Bank Robberies
  • Barbie doll
  • Baseball pitchers
  • Baths
  • batteries
  • Bauch & Lomb optics and glasses
  • Beating diseases
  • Biggest stuff
  • Blood transfusions
  • Blue jeans
  • Board games
  • Body Facts
  • Body myths
  • Books, their history through the ages
  • Bottles
  • Bra Brassiere history and development  
  • Brain
  • Brinks robbery
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • By-Products
  • Caffeine
  • Cape Canaveral rocket launch headquarters
  • Car Designers
  • Carrington Event EMP from the sun
  • Cars
  • Castaways shipwrecks
  • Caterpillar club people saved by parachutes
  • Cheddar man ancient human of England
  • Chess facts, chess words
  • Chicago fire
  • Chlorine trifluoride poisonous gas
  • Christmas Carols
  • Christmas WTF
  • Close Calls and narrow escapes
  • Clothing 
  • CNN Tower (Canada)
  • Coincidences
  • Coins
  • Color blindness
  • Comets asteroids and meteors - what's the difference?
  • Composers
  • Computers
  • Credit Cards
  • Crossword puzzles
  • Crying
  • Cuyahoga River catches on fire
  • Dancing
  • Dangerous Toys
  • Daylight savings time
  • Death Valley National Park California
  • Deodorants
  • Derecho the big storms
  • Diamonds
  • Dinner Party Disasters
  • Dinosaurs
  • Dishwasher machine
  • Disney World Florida
  • Dollar bills
  • Dreaming during sleep
  • Dry cleaning
  • Dumpsters the big garbage bins
  • Dust
  • Dynamite
  • Eclipse of the sun
  • Edmund Fitzgerald the ship and the song
  • Elevators
  • Email- how it got invented
  • Etch-a-Sketch the toy
  • Eye Facts
  • Fabric facts
  • Failed trademark cases
  • Famous Franchises
  • Famous Horse races
  • Famous Last Words
  • Farts
  • Feet
  • Female pirates
  • Fictional Castaways
  • Fictional places
  • Fingernails
  • Fingerprint Foibles
  • Fingerprints
  • Flight
  • football (American football)
  • Footnotes of History
  • Fossil forest of the arctic
  • Freaky Facts
  • Galloping Gertie the disastrous bridge
  • Generica the rise of generic stores
  • Geography
  • Gilligan’s Island the famous comedy TV show
  • Give-aways that got away
  • Glass
  • Gold
  • Golf
  • GRASS
  • Grocery Stores
  • Groundhogs
  • Guinness book of world records / Ripley’s believe it or not

Topics

  • Hail
  • Hair
  • Hair inventions and the people behind them
  • Helium
  • Hospitals
  • How to make a mirror
  • Human body facts
  • Human hailstones
  • Human heart
  • Hurricanes
  • Huygens space probe
  • I Told You So, people who got the last laugh
  • Ice Balloon, an arctic  disaster
  • Ice cream
  • Icky Dinners
  • Ikea
  • IMPOSTERS
  • Insomnia
  • INSULTS
  • Interstate highways
  • inventors killed by their inventions
  • Irony
  • Jacuzzi - the hot tub
  • Jam jelly and juice
  • Japan Tsunami of 2011
  • Kentucky Derby
  • Kitsault Canada- modern Ghost Town
  • Knights & Archers
  • Krakatoa the volcano
  • LA BREA TAR PITS
  • Lake Mead, the disappearing reservoir
  • Lakes
  • Laughter
  • Lead, the metal
  • Libraries
  • Light Bulbs
  • lightbulbs, the frosted kind
  • Little Glitches cause big problems
  • Long Falls - people who fell
  • Lottery
  • Macbeth
  • Made-up Measures
  • Major Martin the ficticious dead spy
  • Mariana Trench, deepest point in the ocean
  • Mars Curse, problems getting spacecraft to Mars
  • Master’s Tournament in Golf
  • Matches and why they catch on fire
  • McDonalds the hamburger chain
  • Measurements and how they got so weird (Imperial)
  • medicine chest- things in your bathroom
  • Memorable Partings
  • Mercury Poisoning
  • Messages in bottles
  • Metric system
  • Mice
  • Miracles at Sea
  • Mirrors
  • Misconceptions
  • Money
  • Monowi, Nebraska, Population 1 / smallest town
  • Moon facts
  • Mosquitoes
  • Mount Everest
  • Mount St Helens volcano
  • Mount Toba super volcano
  • Mylar the incredible material
  • National Trivia Day
  • nautical races, boats and sailboats
  • Neckties
  • Niagara Falls
  • Nickers - the pants-  knickerbocker
  • Nicotine
  • Nose and smell
  • Odd Measurements - unusual ways of measuring thing
  • Odd Odds  and Weird Bets
  • Office Supplies
  • Olestra the disastrous fat substitute
  • Opera
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Paper
  • Patriotic Items
  • People Named Smith
  • People named Z for National Z week
  • Perfume
  • Peshtigo fire, the disaster of Wisconcin
  • Petroleum
  • Pianos
  • pirates
  • Plastic
  • Plastic bags and bottles
  • Plymouth Rock where the first pilgrims landed their ship Mayflower
  • Point Nemo furthest point from land
  • Poison
  • poker
  • Pompeii buried by Mt. Vesuvius
  • potato blight of Ireland
  • pranks and practical jokes
  • Punctuation $#%&^*@!
  • Rabies
  • Radithor: radioactive medicine and the death of Eben Byers 
  • Rain
  • Random Facts
  • Refrigerators
  • Restaurant Facts
  • Richest people showing off: epic ostentation
  • Roller coasters
  • Roller coasters: the  Kinga Ka
  • Roswell Incident UFO in New Mexico
  • Rubber
  • Rubber bands
  • Rust
  • Rust prevention

I Have 

  • Sacrificial satellites
  • Salt
  • Sand
  • Sand Sleuths
  • Satellites
  • Scrabble the board game
  • Scurvy
  • Secret Codes
  • Sequoyah Indian tribe
  • Serendipitous science: lucky breaks in the lab
  • Shoes
  • Silly Putty the goo
  • Sizes of Things
  • Skin
  • Sleep
  • Sleep Deprivation contests
  • slinky the toy
  • Slugging it out for Slogans - a fight between airlines
  • Smithsonian museum
  • Smokejumpers - parachuting firefighters 
  • Snoring
  • Soap
  • Social Security
  • Sound of silence - Simon and Garfunkle song
  • Spam the canned meat
  • Spies
  • Star Spangled Banner national anthem
  • steamboats
  • Stock market / investments
  • Strange christmas facts
  • Strange Diets
  • Straws - someone had to invent them
  • Stuntmen in the movies
  • Super glue
  • Supplements
  • Surtsey Island - volcanic baby island
  • Tacky toys
  • Tay bridge disaster
  • Technology (radios Bluetooth etc)
  • Teeth
  • Teflon
  • Telephones
  • Temperature scales celcius Farenheit kelvin
  • Termites
  • Thanksgiving
  • The elements, chemistry
  • The golden record on the Voyager space craft
  • The Great Cane Toad Disaster of Australia
  • The Great Pizza Funeral
  • the Phantom Killer of Heilbronn 
  • The Poison Squad and the FDA
  • Theatrical goofs
  • Things You Never Knew Had Names
  • Thunderstorms
  • Timex the watch company
  • Tires
  • Tissue - Kleenex
  • Toes
  • Toilet Museums
  • Toilets
  • Tonka trucks tiny toys
  • Tools - how they got named
  • Toothpaste
  • Towns named Dull Boring and Bland
  • toys 
  • Tractors
  • Traffic
  • Trampoline
  • Trivia about trivia, jeopardy game show
  • Trouble from the Sun - EMP blasts
  • Tsunami
  • Twins
  • Unusual Museums
  • UPC Codes
  • Vacuums
  • Venom
  • Vitamin A
  • Vitamins
  • Volcanoes
  • Wagers and bets
  • Water
  • Water ski
  • Wedding facts
  • weddings
  • weird facts
  • Weird Museums
  • Wigs
  • Wills
  • WIMBLEDON tennis capital 
  • Woodstock the music festival
  • World War II
  • World War II By the Numbers
  • World’s largest ketchup bottle
  • World’s largest things
  • Yawning
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • YUCKY things
  • Zambonis - the ice rink machine
  • Zip codes

Written About

  • Beer
  • Beetle Juice - red dye and edible bugs
  • Better Baking (Pillsbury, Pop-n-Fresh, Bisquik)
  • butter
  • Campbell’s soup
  • Candy
  • Candy bars
  • Cereal
  • cheese
  • chewing gum
  • chocolate
  • Cocktails
  • Coffee
  • Coffee Brands
  • condiments
  • cookies
  • Cracker Jack
  • Crackers
  • Dangerous Dinners
  • Eggs
  • Eskimo Pie the ice cream treat
  • Fair foods- foods found at county fairs
  • Favorite Candy (milk duds, tootsie rolls, heath bars)
  • Flavors
  • Food Facts
  • Food Flops
  • Food Origins
  • Fortune cookies- the tragic history
  • French fries
  • Frozen Foods - people in your freezer
  • Fruit
  • Garlic affects on body
  • Gelatin 
  • Honey
  • Hot dogs
  • Hot Peppers
  • Jell-O
  • Licorice
  • Maraschino Cherries
  • Margarine
  • Milk
  • origins of names of fruits and vegetables
  • Oscar Mayer hot dogs
  • pasta
  • pepper the spice
  • PEZ dispensers the candy
  • Pizza
  • Pop rocks the candy
  • Popcorn
  • Potato Chips
  • Pringles / planters peanuts
  • Reddi-Wip canned whipped topping
  • Rhubarb
  • Rice
  • Sauces – worchestershire and tabasco
  • Skittles the candy
  • Snack cakes
  • Soda Pop
  • Sugar
  • Sweet drinks  (kool-aid and  Hawaiian punch)
  • Tea
  • Top ramen the noodles
  • Twinkies the snack food
  • Wonder bread the first sliced bread