Trivia and Amazing Facts 30-12-08
- HOW LONG IS A COSMIC YEAR? A cosmic year is the time it takes the sun to complete one revolution around the center of the Milky Way galaxy - about 225 million earth years. The sun is between 20 and 21 cosmic years old.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- HOW DID THE ICE-CREAM SUNDAE GET ITS NAME? The sundae was created in Evanston, Illinois, in the late nineteenth century to get around a Sabbath ban on selling ice-cream sodas. It was dubbed Sunday, but spelled with an "e" instead of a "y" to avoid religious objections.
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
- WHAT IS THE LOWEST BODY OF WATER ON THE EARTH? The Dead Sea. At its lowest point, it's 1,315 feet below sea level.
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