The Weirdest Things You Could Only Find at Your Grandparents House

Address Books & The Yellow Pages

If you needed to know someone's address, Grandmom was the first person on the list of people to ask. She always kept a handwritten address book and also had the Yellow Pages on hand. The Yellow Pages, however, weren't used to find local phone numbers, instead you were plopped up on it as a makeshift booster seat when you went over for dinner as a kid.

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The More You Know

  • Only two national flags have the color purple on them.
  • Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
  • Surfaces near the equator move much faster than those in other locations on Earth.
  • The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
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