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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Trivia and Amazing Facts 24-12-08

• The bones of modern birds are so completely adapted to the need to conserve weight in flight that a bird's feathers usually weigh more than it's entire skeleton. The bones are more or less hollow, with honeycomb-like structures inside.

• In an average lifetime, the average human will produce in excess of 6,250 gallons of saliva.

• Your feet perspire approximately one-half of a pint of water per day.

• The word "sake," Japanese wine made from fermented rice, is shortened from the word sake-mizu, which translates to "prosperous waters."

• The first child born on January 1, 2000, will have been conceived on or about April 1, 1999.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 18-12-08

• Jellyfish evaporate every once in a while.

• A horse can look forward with one eye and backwards with the other.

• HOW LONG IS THE AVERAGE ADULT'S SPINAL CORD? From 17 to 18 inches. Its weight, minus the membranes and nerves, is about 1 1/2 ounces.

• America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 12-12-08

• A hockey puck weighs 0.38 pounds.

• William Moulton Marston was the creator of Wonder Woman. He also invented the polygraph.

• Make burns disappear! When you accidentally singe your finger on the stove, clean the skin and apply light pressure with the finger pads of your unmarred hand. Ice will relieve your pain more quickly, Dr. DeStefano says, but since the natural method brings the burned skin back to a normal temperature, the skin is less likely to blister.

• Per the dictionary, one definition of a "cartwheel" is a silver dollar.

• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 05-12-08

• Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.

• Coined in the early 1980s, the slang term "rock jock" is a mountaineering enthusiast.

• Something that is without teeth can be said to be "edentulous".

• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

• HOW OLD WAS MICHAEL JACKSON WHEN THE JACKSON 5 RELEASED ITS FIRST SONG? Michael Joe Jackson, born August 29, 1958, was eleven when their first song was released in November 1969 and sold 2 million copies in its first six weeks.

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