Trivia and Amazing Facts 28-01-08

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• The act of a husband murdering his wife is called "uxoricide."

• The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BOAT AND A SHIP? The U.S. Navy defines a boat as a "vessel that can be hauled aboard a ship." In ordinary usage, however, large vessels are often called boats as well as ships.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 21-01-08

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• The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.

• What's billed as the world's largest weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow and adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.

• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

• HOW THICK IS THE CRUST OF THE EARTH? Sometimes likened to the shell that covers an egg, the layer of rock that covers the surface of the earth is, on average, 22 miles thick.

• WHO SHOPLIFTS MORE OFTEN - MEN OR WOMEN? For this crime, women outnumber men by four or five to one.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 14-01-08

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• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

• HOW MUCH DOES A 1-CARAT DIAMOND WEIGH? It weighs 200 milligrams, or 3.086 grains troy. The measurement originally represented the weight of a seed of the carob tree.

• WHERE WAS THE FIRST ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME PLAYED? On July 6, 1933, in Comiskey Park, Chicago, home of the White Sox. The American League won, 4-2.

• Cure your toothache without opening your mouth! Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 07-01-08

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• The duffel bag got its name from the Belgian town of Duffel, where the coarse, thicknapped woolen fabric used for the bags was manufactured.

• Fans thought Rod Serling invented the term "Twilight Zone." As a matter of fact, so did Serling. He'd not heard anyone use it before, so he assumed he'd created it. However, after the hit TV show debuted in 1959, Serling was informed that Air Force pilots used the phrase to describe "a moment when a plane is coming down on approach and it cannot see the horizon."

• The Incas and certain other pre-Columbian tribes in Peru developed the decimal system hundreds of years before it was used in Europe.

• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

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