I made a boo-boo last time I was in Salt Lake City.
Or rather, I thought I did 
We were lunching out with friends when I, inadvertantly referred to the cluster of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as the "Tri-State Area"…
Embarrasingly enough, that slip-up was recognized and corrected… According to friends, Tri-State refer to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut… Hmmm…
Pigheaded that I was, I couldn’t just let it go. I was so sure that I got it right! So I researched a bit. True enough, I found this:
"…tri-state areas where three states … meet at one point (a tripoint), or in proximity to each other"
Interestingly enough, of the 38 so-called Continental USA Tri-States the most famous of which , the NY-NJ-CN, is NOT really a tri-state as "… There is no tripoint, however, as Connecticut does not touch New Jersey"…
Aha! See what a little research can do!
Moral of the story - in every cloud, there is a silver lining. Embarassment can be turned into opportunites of learning. Information is Power! Hahaha.
But seriously, it just shows you how much time I have on my hands… soooo much time!
Anyway, for all trivia lovers out there, here are other "useful" facts that I dug up, enjoy!
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Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
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The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
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The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
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During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
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Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
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There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
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Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
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A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
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Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
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The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
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The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
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Pinocchio was made of pine.
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Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
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New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
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There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
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The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
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"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
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Blue and white are the most common school colors.
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Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
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In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
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A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
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America’s best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
