[1][2] National Trivia Day is celebrated in the United States and Canada and is seen as a way for organizations to share interesting facts about their subject areas.

[5] Birch founded the Puns Corp, intended to help people have fun with words.

He got a degree from the University of Miami, Florida, with a double major in literature and philosophy and earned a master's degree in library science from the Catholic University of America in 1958.

He worked on a research project with the Science Index Group determining a way to make writing or speeches maximally intelligible.

[8][9] He did other library research into wording styles of material titles to determine what would make them most efficiently retrieved.