Trivia worth the reading time

A common custom in Spain and Mexico is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.

English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because they added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.

According to NAR, 33% of buyers in 2008 went to the internet as the first step in the home search process. Seventeen percent contacted a real estate agent first, and 9% began by driving through neighborhoods looking for homes for sale.

Famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio appeared on the educational children's program "Romper Room" when he was three years old.

January is named for the Roman god Janus, who could look forward and backward at the same time.

The phrase "Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride," actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924.

On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten times more than males do while playing sports.

On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later.