Trivia and Amazing Facts

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• A dentist invented the electric chair. (EVEN MORE SCARY!!!)

• WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE? It is the 180th meridian of longitude, marking the day where one civil day ends and another begins. It runs north and south across the middle of the Pacific Ocean. In some places it veers a little to avoid lopping off parts of geographical locations such as Siberia.

• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

• Women smile more than men do.

• The Honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

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• It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

• WHAT COUNTRY HAS DIVERTED ROADS TO AVOID DISRUPTING “ELF MOUNDS”–COMMUNITIES OF ELVES? Iceland.

• The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

• From 1967-1976, the town of Tororo located in Uganda had thunder 251 out of the 365 days in a year for those years.

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• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

• WHAT IS THE CHEMICAL CONTENT IF GUANO? Bird guano – the accumulated excretement and remains of birds such as cormorants, pelicans, and gannets – is 11 to 16 percent nitrogen, 8 to 12 percent phosphoric acid, and 2 to 3 percent potash. The excellent fertilizer is harvested from islands off Peru, Baja California, and Africa, Bat and seal guano is also highly prized.

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• The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

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• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

• In the 1970 Census, the U.S. had 2,983 men who were already widowers at the age of fourteen and 289 women, also at fourteen, who had already been widowed or divorced.

• WHAT IS THE AVERAGE AGE AT WHICH AMERICA’S PRESIDENTS HAVE TAKEN OFFICE? Age 54.

• BRUSSELS – Former ambulance driver Leo Van Aert was able to use his handy first aid skills to save the life of one of his pond fish by using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Van Aert was so delighted that his cherished koi would live that he wanted to name it after one of his grandchildren. He had been enjoying a party at his residence when his wife noticed the fish – a spotted Japanese carp – floating on the surface of the garden pond. The koi was “acting funny,” swimming and jumping before coming to a dead halt in the water. Worried that the fish had a heart attack, Van Aert pulled it out of the pond, giving it heart massages before touching his lips to the fish. “After 15 minutes, the fish started to move again so I put him in the pond…but when he fell over again I again applied mouth-to-mouth and heart massages,” Van Aert said. “That’s when the fish recovered.”

• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

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• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.

• There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit.

• WHICH WORLD LEADER WAS KNOWN AS THE CONQUERING LION? Haile Selassie (1891-1975), emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. His tenacity against his enemies earned him his nickname, a variation of one of his official titles, the Lion of Judah.

• WHICH RELIGION USES PRAYER RUGS? Muslims of central and western Asia use prayer rugs to cover the ground while they pray. The rugs feature a distinctive arch-shaped design – a prayer niche, or mihrab – on one end of the carpet. The mihrab must be pointed toward Mecca while the person is praying.

• WHEN DID BRANDING CATTLE ORIGINATE? Branding cattle was not an invention of the Old West. Laws in New England approved it in the 1600s. There were eastern cowboys, too.

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• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

• WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON TRANSPLANT OPERATION? The bone graft.

• WAS LINCOLN THE FIRST PRESIDENT BORN IN A LOG CABIN? No, Andrew Jackson holds that honor. He was born on March 15, 1767, in a log cabin in Waxhaw, South Carolina. He was also the first president born in South Carolina and the first born west of the Allegheny Mountains.

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• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older

• “Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

• ON AVERAGE, HOW MANY PEAS ARE THERE IN A POD? Seven to nine.

• HOW MANY PLAYERS DO YOU NEED TO START A POLO GAME? You need two teams with four players each and horses for all of them. The aim is to drive a wooden ball down a grass field and between two goalposts.

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• Iceberg lettuce, which is also called “head lettuce” was called “crisphead” until the 1920′s. The name was changed to iceberg lettuce because when the lettuce was being shipped by California growers they would put lots of ice underneath the lettuce to keep it crisp..

• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

• People who have never married are 7.5 times more likely to be hospitalized in a state or community psychiatric facility than those who married.

• WHERE WAS THE WORLD’S FIRST PAPER MONEY USED? In China in the ninth century. It was introduced due to a scarcity of the copper used for coins.

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• Astronauts cannot cry. In space, there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow

• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

• No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.”

• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

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• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

• A snail can sleep for three years.

• The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever existed. It can grow to be as large as a third of a football field, yet feast on small, shrimp-like animals called krill. The marine mammal is an endangered species.

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