Trivia and Amazing Facts

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• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.

• If you were to remove the scent receptors from a dog’s nose and lay them out flat, they would cover an area greater than the dog itself.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

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• The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

• In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

• Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in  the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of  those fail in the second year.

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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• Iguanas are a delicacy in Nicaragua.

• Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.

• English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to fight scurvy.

• The name for insect poop is frass.

• There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger.

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• The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.

• At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there.

• Ken Charles Barger accidentally shot himself to death when he was awakened by the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed. When he reached for the phone, he grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which went off when he held it to his ear.

• Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President.

• Archeologists report that cannabis was most likely the first plant cultivated by humans. Cannabis was used for linen, paper, and garments.

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• S.O.S. doesn’t stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” — It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.

• There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.

• The first successful American Soap Opera was “Search for Tomorrow,” which had its debut in 1951.

• Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. YEAH GO AHEAD AND TRY IT

• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

• On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

• Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.

• In the late 1950′s, California surfers invented the skateboard as a means of surfing outside of water.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

• By recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees; 6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space; and 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy.

• A man died after being killed by his own gas. His diet had consisted mostly of beans and cabbage and he was sleeping in a room with no ventilation. It appeared that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was lurking over his bed. An autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.