Trivia & Amazing Facts 20-02-12

• Pound for pound, Hamburgers cost more than new cars.

• A coffee substitute during the civil war was ground acorns

• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 20-01-12

• Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States.

• Are little girls still made with “sugar ‘n’ spice, and everything nice?” Well, almost. Females average 23% muscle by weight and 25% fat. Males – 40% muscle and 15% fat.

• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

• In Hungary, a roast pig, with a four-leaf clover in its mouth, is prepared for New Year’s.

• An average person spends three years of his or her life on the toilet.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 19-12-11

• A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair.

• The act of sneezing is called sternutation.

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.

• In St Paul, red poinsettias were banned in 2001 at Ramsey County Courthouse-City Hall to placate sensitive people who believe they are Christian symbols. White poinsettias were allowed, but unknown insensitive people smuggled a few red ones in. In 2002, red poinsettias were restored to the display.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 11-11-11

• The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

• The age of the youngest astronaut, was 25

• The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.

• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 11-10-11

• WHAT IS THE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SLOW BOIL AND A ROLLING BOIL? Boiling water in an open pot is never hotter than 212 degrees, no matter how fast it boils. In other words, a slow boil and a rolling boil are the same temperature, but the rate of energy loss is different. Kind of like walking or running a mile – same amount of calories are expended. The difference is how fast the calories are burned up.

• Pound for pound, Hamburgers cost more than new cars.

• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.

• From 1526 to 1707, the first six Mogul emperors of India ruled in unbroken succession from father to son.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 23-09-11

• An elephant cannot jump.

• HOW FAST–IN MILES PER HOUR–DO THE FASTEST MESSAGES TRANSMITTED BY THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM TRAVEL? 180 to 200 mph.

• Label on a Swedish Chain Saw: “Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.”

• People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.

• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 07-09-11

• A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
• Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
• From space, the brightest visible man-made place on earth is Las Vegas.
• Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders!

• Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

• One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.

• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

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• Mollusks, soft bodied animals with hard shells, are the second largest population of living things.

• HOW MANY LEGS DOES A MILLIPEDE HAVE? Despite their names, millipedes never have a thousand legs. They can have from a couple dozen to several hundred but not a thousand.

• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

• A cubic mile of Fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.

• The height of the 984 foot Eiffel tower varies as much as 6″ depending on the temperature

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• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

• DOES THE “OLD SOFT-SHOE” HAVE ANY THING TO DO WITH SOFT SHOES? Soft-shoe was one of two distinct styles of tap dancing developed in the late nineteenth century. Easygoing and smooth, it required soft-soled shoes. In contrast, the fast, energetic buck-and-wing employed wooden soled shoes. The two styles merged by 1925, with metal taps added to the toes and heels.

• A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

• An oyster can change its gender.

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

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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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• The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier’s head from the rest of his body.

• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.

• If you were to remove the scent receptors from a dog’s nose and lay them out flat, they would cover an area greater than the dog itself.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

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• The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

• In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

• Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in  the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of  those fail in the second year.

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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• Iguanas are a delicacy in Nicaragua.

• Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.

• English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to fight scurvy.

• The name for insect poop is frass.

• There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger.

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• The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.

• At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there.

• Ken Charles Barger accidentally shot himself to death when he was awakened by the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed. When he reached for the phone, he grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which went off when he held it to his ear.

• Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that he was US President.

• Archeologists report that cannabis was most likely the first plant cultivated by humans. Cannabis was used for linen, paper, and garments.

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• There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.

• The first successful American Soap Opera was “Search for Tomorrow,” which had its debut in 1951.

• Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. YEAH GO AHEAD AND TRY IT

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

• On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

• Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced so he could eat them in the order they were laid.

• In the late 1950′s, California surfers invented the skateboard as a means of surfing outside of water.

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

• By recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees; 6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space; and 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy.

• A man died after being killed by his own gas. His diet had consisted mostly of beans and cabbage and he was sleeping in a room with no ventilation. It appeared that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was lurking over his bed. An autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.

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• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

• The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

• Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

• Michael Anderson Goodwin was sitting on a metal toilet in his jail cell, attempting to fix his small TV set, when he bit into a wire and was electrocuted. Ironically, Goodwin had spent many years awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair on a murder conviction before his sentenced was reduced to life in prison.

• Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman

• The first car race in the Unites States, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald was held in 1895. The contestants drove from Chicago to Waukegan. It was won by James Frank Duryea (1869-1967).

• If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.

• A person who is lost and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes, provided they are made of leather.

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