But there it is.

Here is another Friday Find designed to increase your knowledge of all kinds of esoteric facts of questionable usefulness—or waste your time (assuming those two things are not, in fact, the same thing).

I, personally, love esoteric facts of questionable usefulness.  I like to rationalize that with the theory that no fact is useless to a writer, actor or director.  I suspect, however, that I’m just nosy.  (We could be charitable and say “curious.”)

In many ways, I would be a good Jeopardy! contestant.  Experience indicates, however, that I would never actually win.  Final Jeopardy gets me every time.

Every time.

If my internet surfing is any indication, though, I am trying hard to change the odds in my favor.  As you can tell, much of my time is spent in pursuit of those esoteric facts.

And today I found out about TIFO, or Today I Found Out.

It’s a website described fairly accurately on their About page as “a site founded on the precept that it is always good to learn something new every day.”

On it, you can find such interesting articles as How Deaf People Think, the origin of the term sideburns (General Ambrose Burnside), and the best ways to lower blood pressure naturallyalong with thousands of other things.

You can spend hours browsing, or click on a link to display a random article.

You can also sign up for a daily email.  Frankly, I think that would be safer, unless, of course, your stint on Jeopardy is scheduled next week.  In that case, you’re going to need all the help you can get.

And be careful with Final Jeopardy.  It’s a killer.