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To anyone who speaks Latin on a regular basis, the word trivia means three (tri) roads (via). So how the heck did "three roads" come to mean "something of lesser importance"? Actually it's academic. Really - and it has to do with the roads to knowledge. Midieval European schools taught seven subjects, the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music). When these became known as the "lower three" and the "upper four" a new connotation was attached to the word trivium - that of being the subjects "of lesser importance." These archived iMahal examples of trivia may lack utility, but we think they make up for it in novelty.
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