A Continuing Look at Less Important Things
BY MARK A. LARSON
I love trivia. Get me in a Trivial Pursuit game and I’m in heaven. Close friends wonder why little-known facts fascinate me. But then close friends often wonder about me. I don’t really know why trivia catches my interest, yet I know it’s often the seemingly unimportant things in life that can be the most intriguing. Here’s what I mean.
For instance, did you know …
• A ton of baseball cards is actually 521,739 cards?
• It would take 18,103 baseball cards stretched end-to-end to equal a mile?
• A million baseball cards stacked on top of each other would be over 1,375 feet high – or more than a quarter of a mile?
• It would take 5,376 baseball cards to wallpaper my bedroom?
• If you had 10 million cards to give away, and handed out one per minute, it would take over 19 years to get rid of them all?
• A million baseball cards weigh 3,833 pounds?
• One BILLION baseball cards would cover a four-lane highway for 246.6 miles?
• My refrigerator holds over 67,000 baseball cards (not counting my freezer which holds an additional 10,000)?
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• Originally Published in Feb. 1985 “Twin Times” •
THIS ARTICLE FROM THE “TWIN TIMES” NEWSLETTER – OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE TWIN CITIES SPORTS COLLECTORS CLUB – IS REPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. IT HAS BEEN RETYPED, BUT NO CONTENT HAS BEEN CHANGED (EXCEPT FOR VERY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS, CORRECTIONS TO ANY TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND THE ADDITION OF GRAPHICS). COMMENTS OR INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE MAY BE OUT-OF-DATE.
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