{"id":786,"date":"2010-08-28T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T03:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2010-08-28T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T03:49:01","slug":"im-getting-smarter-by-the-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/786","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m getting smarter by the minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I believe that someone&#8217;s intelligence should be measured by the amount of <em>useful<\/em> information they possess, insight to their character can be determined by the amount and type of useless information they can recall. I&#8217;m not sure where I rank on the first measure, though to be well-rounded, I do occasionally need to work on the useless part. Fortunately, one of my podcasts, The Podcast About Nothing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyjett.com\">Jimmy Jett<\/a>, highlighted a source of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unnecessaryknowledge.com\/\">Unnecessary Knowledge<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be all set for the next lull in a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples from a few minutes of studying:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 10 percent of all the salt produced annually in the world is used to de-ice American roads. (#<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryknowledge.com\/?id=2588\">2588<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. (#<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryknowledge.com\/?id=114\">114<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene. (#<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryknowledge.com\/?id=557\">557<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The verb &#8220;cleave&#8221; is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. (#<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryknowledge.com\/?id=51\">51<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I believe that someone&#8217;s intelligence should be measured by the amount of useful information they possess, insight to their character can be determined by the amount and type of useless information they can recall. I&#8217;m not sure where I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-cG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}