National Association of Letter Carriers

April 2025:

Snapple Fact #17 ... The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

February 2025:

Snapple Fact #1411 ... There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth.

January 2025:

Snapple Fact #408 ... Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.

November - December 2024:

Snapple Fact #419 ... A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.

Snapple Fact #705 ... Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.

October 2024:

Snapple Fact #1397 ... Gorillas burp when they are happy.

September 2024:

Snapple Fact #906 ... Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated (fitting for us letter carriers).

July - August 2024:

Snapple Fact #1234 ... The Flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down   🦩.

June 2024:

Snapple Fact #989 ... To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.

May 2024:

Snapple Fact #763 ... Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

April 2024:

Snapple Fact #144 ... Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.

March 2024:

Snapple Fact #1244 ... The word utopia - an ideal place - ironically comes from a Greek word meaning “no place.”

February 2024:

Snapple Fact #237 ... The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.

January 2024:

Snapple Fact #1012 ... The King of Hearts is the only King without a mustache.

December 2023:

Appropriate Snapple Fact #1307 ... Canada’s postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is HOH OHO  🎅🏼

November 2023:

Snapple Fact #1029 ... Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas  🍌

October 2023:

Snapple Fact #45 ... Elephants are capable of swimming up to 20 miles a day  🐘 🐘 🐘

September 2023:

We’ve got a Snapple Fact two-for-one this month ...

Snapple Fact #1511 ... It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.

Snapple Fact #958 ... The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.

June 2023:

Trivia Time with Jim Salvati is back  😃

Who wrote “Blinded By The Light” and what band made it popular way back in 1976?

Bruce Springsteen wrote the classic hit, which appeared on his debut studio album “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” in 1973 ... but the song shot to the top of the charts with the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band version, which reached number one in ’76.

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Snapple Fact #94 ... Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

May 2023:

Snapple Fact #61 ... Pigs can get sunburn.

April 2023:

Not exactly our usual trivia offering, but here goes ...

Snapple Fact #819 ... Children grow faster during springtime.

February 2023:

A quick one for the shortest month of the year ...

What coach stars in the current Chunky Soup commercial?


LA Rams Coach Sean McVay

December 2022:

“To everything, there is a season ...”
“And a time to every purpose, under heaven”

For the bonus round, it’s Ecclesiastes 3:1 - 8 (King James Version)

Written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950’s, the song found international acclaim in 1965 ...

The tune is “Turn!, Turn!, Turn!”, from the album of the same name ...

Recorded by Roger McGuinn and the Byrds.

October 2022:

“The trees are stripped bare of all they wear ...”

Wow ... does this one take your humble Webmaster back !!!

Appropriately released in October of 1981, we get a guitar master showing off his piano chops for a few inspired moments ...

The tune is “October”, from the album of the same name ...

Recorded by the one and only U2.

September 2022:

“Came in last night at half past ten ...
That baby of mine wouldn’t let me in ...
So move it on over ...”

One song, two versions ...

From 1947, we get the original from the great Hank Williams.

But it was the cover version that took it to the top of the charts.

The tune is “Move It On Over”, recorded in 1978 by George Thorogood and the (Delaware) Destroyers.

June 2022:

“And what you say about his company ...
Is what you say about society ...
Catch the mist, catch the myth ...
Catch the mystery, catch the drift ...”

A singular masterpiece of the progressive rock genre.
Showcasing the drumming virtuosity of the late Neil Peart
(who also wrote the song’s lyrics).
The album is 1981’s “Moving Pictures”.
The song is “Tom Sawyer” ...
And the band is Toronto’s very own - Rush

February 2022:

“Well, I built me a raft and she’s ready for floatin’ ...
Ol’ Mississippi, she’s callin’ my name ...
Catfish are jumpin’, that paddle wheel thumpin’ ...”

Released in 1974 ... 48 years ago this very month!
(How’s that make ya feel? ...)

The album was “What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits” ...
The tune is “Black Water” ...
And the band is from San Jose, CA ... the one and only Doobie Brothers

December 2021:

“I’m goin’ down south
Way down to Mexico way ... alright
I’m goin’ way down south
Way down where I can be free ...”

Nope ... there ain’t NO ONE gonna find me !!!

It’s an old song, as old as 1962.
But it was Jimi Hendrix who took it beyond the stratoshpere.
From 1966, it’s “Hey Joe” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

October 2021:

“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow ...
Don’t be alarmed now ...
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen.”

Well now, even if the lyrics are burned in your deepest memories, the 1971 album’s title can be another matter altogether. It has been called: “Led Zeppelin IV”, “The Four Symbols”, “The Runes” and “ZoSo”.

And no doubt someone somewhere even called it the “Stairway To Heaven” album, right?

In interviews, both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have refered to it as “the Fourth Album”.

It’s your choice, Zeppelin fans ... There are no wrong answers here.

September 2021:

“Well, it’s no big sin to stick your two cents in ...
If you know when to leave it alone ...
But you went over the line ...
You couldn’t see it was time to go home.”

Yep ... you had to be a “Big Shot”

From Billy Joel’s 1978 album “52nd Street”

August 2021:

“When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide ...
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride ...
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.”

This month’s song comes from the Beatles vast and magnificent catalog.

From 1968’s “White Album”, this is “Helter Skelter”.

July 2021:

“Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right ...”

The song was “Stuck In The Middle With You” by the 70’s Scottish band Stealers Wheel.

In 1992, it was used to chilling effect in the movie “Reservoir Dogs”
(Where Mr. Blonde tortures the police officer, for all you Tarantino fans ...)

June 2021:

It's Baseball Trivia Time  ⚾

What two teams were in the other ALDS and what was the series score?

It was 2007, and while the Yankees and the Indians struggled through the "Bug Game", the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angels fought it out in their own ALDS.

The good news ... Red Sox took the series 3 - 0 !!!

May 2021:

"If you know, say I know, I know, I know ..."

This month's song was released in 1971 and went to # 6 on the R&B charts.
Sadly, the writer and performer passed away in March of 2020 at the age of 81.

The man was Bill Withers and the song was "Ain't No Sunshine".

April 2021:

It's BOXING Trivia ...

Who is the only heavyweight champion to have finished his career undefeated?

The "Brockton Blockbuster" ... the one and true "Rocky" ...
Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano.

March 2021:

"He blew his mind out in a car ...
He didn't notice that the lights had changed."

John Lennon sang it ...

And it was the final track of the Beatle's 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

It's "A Day in the Life" ...

February 2021:

"He's making a list and checking it twice ..."

The song is "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"

The earliest recorded version of the song was by Banjoist Harry Reser and his Orchestra in October of 1934. In December of the same year, they began a weekly broadcast on NBC radio.

Other singers have included Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, The Crystals, Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans, The Temptations, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Buble, and The Jackson 5.

January 2021:

And the trivia isn't gettin' any easier !!!

"Rollin', rollin', rollin'"

Ya gotta keep them doggies rollin', baby ...

Theme song from the 1959-65 series "Rawhide"
"Rawhide" the show starred a young Clint Eastwood
"Rawhide" the song was sung by the incomparable Frankie Laine ...
And was featured to comedic effect in the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers"

(Did you get all that ???)

October 2020:

We're Back, Baby !!! ...

"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ...
Too much love drives a man insane ...
You broke my will, but what a thrill ..."

It's a classic, it was written by Otis Blackwell & Jack Hammer and it was recorded in 1957:
It's "Great Balls Of Fire" by Jerry Lee "The Killer" Lewis.

April 2020:

"But I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun ...
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on baby..."

This month, we have a mid-eighties summertime classic:
"The Boys Of Summer" from Don Henley's 1984 release "Building The Perfect Beast".

March 2020:

"I'm so hot for her, I'm so hot for her ...
I'm so hot for her and  _ _ _'_   _ _   _ _ _ _."

The big "Lips & Tounge" logo and a little bit of deductive reasoning should have brought you to:
"She's So Cold" from the Rolling Stones' 1980 "Emotional Rescue" album.

February 2020:

Trivia is back !!!

"All the way home I held a grudge ...
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge ...
Crusin' and playin' the radio."

First released as a single by Chess Records in May 1964, then on the album "St. Louis to Liverpool" in November 1964
It's the ledgendary Chuck Berry and his hit "No Particular Place To Go".

November 2019:

Gotta love "Movie Quote Trivia" ...

"I think it's a bad idea to march today, Sergeant. You know it IS the cold and flu season."

The incomparable Bill Murray from 1981's comedy classic, "Stripes".

October 2019:

"Leave your blood at the Red Cross or your community blood bank, not on the highway"

A bit of T.V. history here ... It's Broderick Crawford from the classic series "Highway Patrol".
Link to audio clip ... courtesy of highwaypatroltv.com

September 2019:

"Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today ...
I just touched down on an international runway ..."

Hail, hail ... Chuck Berry !!!
A 1959 single, later included on the 1962 album "More Chuck Berry"
It's "Back In The U.S.A.".

June 2019:

"I've been on tender-hooks, ending in dirty looks
Listening to the muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that
She says that's that, I don't want to chitter-chat
Turn it down a little bit, or turn it down flat ...

Yes, a man named Elvis indeed ... Costello, that is.
From 1978's "This Years Model"
It's "Pump It Up".

May 2019:

"Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive."

It's The "Red Rocker" himself ... Sammy Hagar
From his eight studio album "VOA"
The summer hit of 1984 - "I Can't Drive 55".

April 2019: Two Part Trivia !!!

First, the answer to our CPR Readiness quiz:
The proper ratio of chest compressions to rescue breaths? - C) 30:2

"'Cause love was meant for you and I
Wind, rain, sleet or snow
I will be wherever you go
You leave me ... BREATHLESS"

Written by Otis Blackwell, and recorded in 1958 for Sun Records by Jerry Lee Lewis - "Breathless".

March 2019:

"When you comin' home?
Son, I don' know when.
We'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

From Harry Chapin's 1974 album "Verities & Balderdash" - "Cat's In The Cradle".

February 2019:

"Hey, come on try a little ... nothing is forever.
There's got to be something better than ... in the middle.
But me and Cinderella ... we put it all together.
We can drive it home ..."

From Jacob Dylan and the Wallflowers 1996 album "Bringing Down The Horse" - "One Headlight".

December 2018:

"New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be ...
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three ..."

From the 1983 Huey Lewis and the News album "Sports" - "The Heart Of Rock & Roll".

November 2018:

"And I have a lesson, that I must impart to you ...
It's an old expression, but I must insist it's true ..."

From the 1970 Jethro Tull album "Benefit (U.S. release only)" - "Teacher".

October 2018:

"I need a volunteer to ride out
And bring us back some extra men
And Billy's hand was up in a moment
Forgetting all the words she said ..."

From the 1974 singles by Paper Lace and Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods - "Billy, Don't Be A Hero".

August/September 2018:

"Watch out, you might get what you're after;
Cool babies, strange but not a stranger;
I'm an ordinary guy"

From the 1983 album "Speaking In Tongues" - "Burning Down The House" by Talking Heads.

June/July 2018:

"When the weather's fine; We go fishin' or go swimmin' in the sea; We're always happy; Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy"

A true summer song from 1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry.

May 2018:

"I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who ... who wrote the book of love?"

From February of 1958 - "The Book of Love" by The Monotones.

April 2018:

"In 1964, a defensive end from the Minnesota Vikings picked up a loose ball and ran it into his own end zone. What was this player's name and what was the Viking defense known as?"

Jim Marshall and the "Purple People Eaters".

March 2018:

"I say we can act if we want to, if we don't nobody will. And you can act real rude and totally removed. And I can act like an imbecile."

Yes, 80's fans, it's the "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats.

February 2018:

"I feel uptight on a Saturday night ... Nine o' clock, the radio's the only light ... I hear my song and it pulls me through ... Comes on strong, tells me what I got to do ..."

From "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" (and the 1976 album "Destroyer") - "Detriot Rock City" by KISS.

January 2018:

"A winter's day in a deep and dark December ..."

These are the opening lines of "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel off the "Sounds Of Silence" album.

December 2017:

"Nobody gonna take my car, I'm gonna race it to the ground. Nobody gonna beat my car, It's gonna break the speed of sound."

The song is "Highway Star" by Deep Purple off the album Machine Head.

November 2017:

"I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right. I'll never forget the sound that night. The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass. The painful scream that I heard last."

The song is "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers or ... Pearl Jam.