our brain needs fun food. Too much work and not enough diversion can block creative juices.

Well, take a look at all the useful and useless information we've collected for you. Come back often. As you know, we're in the Information Age!

Diner Trivia & Other Neat Stuff
• New Jersey has the most diners in the world (about 600) and is sometimes referred to as the “diner capital of the world”. New York ranks second with Pennsylvania third.

•The first “diner” was a horse-drawn lunch cart built to serve newspaper workers on a graveyard shift and was built in 1872 in Providence, Rhode Island. It sold 5¢ sandwiches and opened after all other restaurants closed.

• According to Richard J.S. Gurman, author or American Diner and renowned diner expert, a classic diner must be modular, built in a factory and shipped to its final location complete with furniture, fixtures and equipment. It must have a counter, booths and homestyle cooking — preferably prepared before your eyes. A diner is a uniquely American experience!

• Save Nick's Diner from a terrible remodeling job. Guess menu items and diner-related phrases or the bricks will pile up and you'll be responsible for the fate of this roadside spot.

• Straight and Narrow are two intersecting streets in Paterson, New Jersey.

• Americans eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

• Coca-Cola was originally green.

• The average human needs 18,250 gallons of water to keep going in an 80-year lifetime? That's enough to fill 2½ tanker trucks!

• Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

• Jersey diner fans, take a look at the Jersey Diner Hall of Fame.

• The average American drinks 3½ cups of coffee a day.

• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. Hey, maybe this one belongs in the Tips page...

• The average person swallows 295 times while eating a meal.

General Nonsense
• The word "Stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand only. Oh, and "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

• Radio City Music Hall is the world's largest movie theater. Built in 1932, it holds almost 6,000 people.

• Did you know that the “White House” was once in the Bronx? For three months in 1797, while a yellow fever epidemic raged in Philadelphia, then the U. S. capital, President John Adams conducted the nation's business from this much-maligned New York City borough. Da Bronx! Fancy dat.

• The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the growing “threat” of rock music.

• The Bible, the world's best selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

• “Hello” is the third most used English word, behind "the” and “I”.

• Most clocks or watches in ads show the time as 10:10 because it looks like a smile.

• When asked to name a color, three out of five people will say “red”. Look at our logo — we know what we’re doing.

• In China, the bride wears red. ’nuff said!

• The moon, if placed against the continental U. S., would stretch from Cleveland to San Francisco.

• Samuel F.B. Morse set about perfecting the telegraph as a money making scheme to augment his meager income earned from portraiture. Ah, the things we do for art...

• Alaska’s coastline is longer than that of all the U.S. coastal states combined. Surf's up!

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

• It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

• Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other — at the same time!

• President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other — take THAT, Leonardo!

• Your brain is 80% water, so drink up.

• Second Street is the most frequently used street name in America. That's just weird.

• There are twice as many left-handed men as there are left-handed women and women blink nearly twice as much as men. Now, that's just strange.

• The average office chair on wheels travels about eight miles per year. Buckle up — it saves lives.

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

• You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

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