Trivia and Amazing Facts 18-01-09

• Stanch blood with a single finger! Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed-if you don't mind choking on your own O positive. A more civil approach: Put some cotton on your upper gums-just behind that small dent below your nose-and press against it, hard. "Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose," says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in Durban, South Africa. "Pressing here helps stop them."

• If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have $1.19. You would also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

• WHAT DID LONDON BLACKSMITH CHARLES MONCKE INVENT? The monkey wrench, which was originally called Moncke's wrench.

• HOW DID BLOOMERS - LADIES PANTALOONS - GET THEIR NAME? From suffragette Amelia Bloomer.

• About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

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