Nine things I know that are of no value whatsoever

1. Yves St. Laurent succeeded Christian Dior at the House of Dior and Karl Lagerfeld succeeded Coco Chanel at the House of Chanel.
2. The Washington Monument in Washington, DC, is 13 feet shorter than the San Jacinto Monument near Houston, Texas.
3. Victorian-era poet Arthur Hugh Clough spent six years as Florence Nightingale's secretary, during which time he wrote no poetry at all.
4. Rock-and-roll star Jerry Lee Lewis, who has been married seven times, is the first cousin of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
5. The name of the horse ridden by Roy Rogers's wife Dale Evans in all those western movies was Buttermilk.
6. Charles the Bald's parents were Louis the Pious and Judith of Bavaria.
7. Although there definitely was a Pepin the Short, no record has been found of a Pepin the Tall.
8. The country of Russia covers 11 time zones.
9. Camilla Rosemary Shand Parker Bowles Mountbatten-Windsor, Duchess of Cornwall, and her husband, Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales, are ninth cousins, once removed.

I close with an old rhyme:

"A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The more he saw, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?"

Especially me.