Trivia & Amazing Facts 16-02-10

• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

• After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.

• In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

• Approximately 74% of Americans celebrate Valentine's Day.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 10-01-10

• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

• "Race car" is a palindrome.

• The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

• Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.

Crazy Jokes

Trivia & Amazing Facts 21-12-09

• Worldwide - more capital cities begin with "B" than any other letter

• "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."

• The first woman governor – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming - was elected in 1924, upon the death of the previous governor, her husband.

• Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.

• There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 15-11-09

• Words that contain the same root, such as the words "wise" and "wisdom," are said to be paronymous.

• Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• Russians generally answer the phone by saying, 'I'm listening.'

• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 04-10-09

• There is great variation in the number of sounds used in the world's languages. In any given language, the number of consonants range from 6 to 95, and the number of vowels range between 3 and 46. On average, a langauge uses 23 consonants and 9 vowels.

• U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.

• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

• No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Proverbs

Trivia & Amazing Facts 17-09-09

• The word encyclopedia is derived from the Greek enkuklios paideia, meaning "general education."

• Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.

• Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.

• The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played the sport to prepare for war.

• Women can detect smell better than men.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 18-08-09

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

• *The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.

• The first time there was an instance where they had a separate toilet for women and men was in 1739 at a ball in Paris.

• A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

• The total population of the Earth at the time of Julius Caesar was 150 million. The total population increase in two years on Earth today is 150 million.

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