The most useless bit of information you know.

Estelle Getty was actually younger (by 14 months) than Bea Arthur, who played her daughter on "The Golden Girls."

 

I know what em, en, and thin spaces are. Also, pica poles and proportion wheels.

 

I'm carrying mountains of useless information in my head, but possibly none more useless than this: I can explain the license-plate numbering systems in all 50 states. (For instance: the last numeral in a Massachusetts plate number represents its month of expiration; the first numerals in an Alabama plate represents the county of issue; etc.)

I also once named all 114 counties in my home state from memory. Alcohol was involved.

 

Mike Lansford and Tony Franklin were both in the NFL long after Corral jumped to the USFL.

 

My favorite television news theme, used by WCBS for the last eight or nine years and in countless other markets, originally was written in the 1970s for WBBM in Chicago by Dick Marx, father of Richard Marx. It has been remixed many times, including by Shelly Palmer ("Palmer News Package"), Frank Gari ("Enforcer") and John Henger ("News In Focus," a theme that was then sold to Gari).

 

How to convert Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit.

 

I think you win the prize here, if there is one!

 

With the exception of the first three ... the three historically most populous. Jefferson, Mobile and Montgomery counties.

 

I don't find that useless at all!

 

Sadly, the league went under before the Shreveport team could complete its proposed move to Cleveland.

 

Slappy's right (as usual). It was Dan Boisture. I interviewed him at his home about six or seven years ago when his grandson, Dan Boisture, was about to be a three-sport athlete in high school (he was moving up to the varsity as a junior). The elder Dan has since died.

 

Hey - I still have a pica pole and proportion wheel in my desk, and still use them! (honest...)