You will learn atleast two things from this blog entry

so i'm reading the book Freakonomics right now. I love when books teach me weird little factoids that i can throw at people to make them think i'm that super-cool weird fact guy. i thought i'd share the ones i found most interesting, so everyone else can be the super-cool weird fact guy/girl. Lots of people already read this book. Lot's of people know more things than i do. Therefore, you might not learn one thing from the following:

• The famous 1973 Supreme Court Case that legalized abortion in the US that pitted Jane Roe against Henry Wade (the Dallas County District attorney), Roe vs. Wade, actually pitted Norma McCorvey against Henry Wade. Norma's name was disguised as Jane Doe before the case reached the high court
• Americans spend $1 billion per year on chewing gum
• During the 15th century, 73 out of every 100,000 people in Italy were murdered. This number might not mean much until you consider the fact that between 1950 and 1994 only 1.5 people out of every 100,000 people in Italy were murdered...which is one of the highest rates in Europe
• 1987 was the first year when people filing tax returns in the US had to provide social security numbers whenever they claimed a dependent child. Seven million children who had existed on previous 1040 forms vanished!
• The Ku Klux Klan was founded by six young men (four of whom were lawyers) in Pulaski, Tennessee in the wake of the civil war. They saw themselves as a circle of like-minded friends. Therefore, they chose a slight alteration of the Greek word for 'circle', kuklos, as their call name. 'klan' was added to pay homage to their scotch-irish descent.
• prior to DuPont's introduction of nylons in 1941, women wore only silk stockings. that's alot of money and alot of silk that wasn't necessarily readily available

So as i conceded earlier, you might not have learned anything from that list. Anybody who picks up the book will read that stuff practically verbatim. But here's a couple things you didn't know:

• i wore a tie today
• i ate 'wild boar' tonight