Trivia and Amazing Facts

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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.

• China to Launch Moon Probe Satellite

• 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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