Word: triviaphilia
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Jennings is hip enough to make fun of his freakish triviaphilia but savvy enough to indulge it too--part of the joy of Brainiac is learning that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...
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