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Here is some more trivia from Gullible.info, one of my all-time favorite websites for finding out trivia. Be sure to visit the “Gullible Trivia” section in my sidebar for new trivia every Time you load the page.

• Installing a lock so the ridges of the key face downwards — what many would consider to be “upside down” — increases the lock’s security by 29 percent.
• In just 15 seconds, 250 electric eels can produce enough energy to power an electric golf cart for 130 minutes.
• While Dr Pepper purports to be a blend of 23 flavors, the company acknowledges that three of those flavors are different concentrations of vanilla extract, bringing the actual number of flavors to 21.
• Creator Marc Cherry has acknowledged that the Desperate Housewives are loosely based on the characters from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
• Among U.S. public companies, the average price paid for an office chair is $62 for rank-and-file employees, $278 for first-level managers, and $723 for executives.
• While AltaVista paid $3.3 million for their domain name, Google purchased theirs for $5. At the time, InterNic was having a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale.
• In deciding their name, Yahoo narrowly selected its current moniker over the internally popular alternative, Hooray.
• Adults over the age of 65 account for less than one percent of all search engine usage.
• It is possible to determine with 91 percent accuracy what TV shows are currently on the top five major broadcast networks by monitoring the top 250 searches in Yahoo.
• According to FAA statistical records, 23B is the safest seat in a commercial airplane accident.
• According to the International Association of Fire Fighters, approximately 12 percent of high-rise office fire alarms are set off by someone accidentally burning popcorn in the microwave.
• The web site of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation runs on Linux.
• Pearls will dissolve in vinegar, opals in chlorine bleach, and cubic zirconia in hydrogen peroxide. The latter provides a simple way to distinguish between diamonds and their imitators.
• In nearly every language of the indigenous Amazon rain forest people, “good weather” refers to a rain storm, and “bad weather” means sunny.

The American Film Institute has recently published a list of the top 100 Most Inspiring Movies of all time. CNN also did a story about it. Here is the top ten of that list:

Visit the American Film Institute for the complete Top 100 list.