Trivia and Amazing Facts 31-07-08

• The male name Steven is from Greek and means "crown."

• The word "mullet" describes a hairstyle worn, particularly in the southern U.S., which is characterized by short hair on the top and sides, with very long hair in the back.

• The British term for abalone is "ormer." The word is derived from the Latin for "ear of the sea," alluding to its shape.

• The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.

• The name of the Internet's most popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name "Yahoo" stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 28-07-08

• In Greek, the word climax means "ladder." In Greece, it is spelled "klimax."

• The name "Vaseline" is a combination of the German word for "water" - wasser - and the Greek word for "olive oil" - elaion.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• Wild Turkeys. According to the National Wild Turkey Federation, the number of wild turkeys in the US has increased from an all time low of 30,000 to more than four million today. One state park in Iowa now boasts more than 100 turkeys per square mile.

• During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the White House purchased 12 tons of jelly beans.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 24-07-08

• Something freckled can be said to be "lentiginous."

• The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe.

• Something that is funny, or is able to or inclined to incite laughter, is "risible."

• Poliosis is the graying of the hair. It comes from polios, the Greek word for "gray."

• The female name Vanessa is Greek for "butterfly."

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 21-07-08

• The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.

• In silent Aboriginal hunting language, a closed hand slowly opening is meant to show that a kangaroo is near.

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

• An obsolete word for warehouse is "entrepot."

• In England, the term "blind road" means a cul-de-sac or dead-end street.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 17-07-08

• The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.

• The English word "pajamas" has its origin in Persian. It is a combination of the Persian words pa (leg) and jamah (garment).

• It is proper etiquette in Japan to put "-san" after another adult's name, or "-chan" after a young girl's name, or "-kun" after a boy's name, but never use these after your own.

• Feline means catlike, bovine means cowlike, and aquiline means eaglelike.

• The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind."

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 14-07-08

• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

• According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.

• A Scottish term for someone who is sullen or bad-tempered is “dorty.”

• It takes 100 sen to equal one ringgit, which is Malaysia's basic unit of currency. Malaysia is the only country that uses the ringgit as its primary legal tender.

• If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 07-07-08

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

• A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

• In the United States, it is called stone-skipping. In England, it is known as ducks and drakes; in Denmark, it's called smutting.

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

• In mining, a passage wide enough for only one person is called a "manway."

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 03-07-08

• An oven used for heating pottery is called a "muffle."

• Anything described as "saurian" is much like a lizard.

• The first college on record to use the word "campus" to describe its grounds was Princeton. "Campus" is Latin for "field."

• Not used as often as it once was, a "springe" is a snare consisting of a noose attached to something under tension, as a bent tree branch.

• As of 1976, there were 110,200,000 TV sets in America, 372,000,000 radios, and 125,142,000 telephones.

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