Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-01-12

 
Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-01-12

• In 1961, the world's first revolving restaurant was built in Seattle.

• You’ve heard that tale about the tortoise and the hare, haven’t you? Ever wonder how fast a tortoise can run? The world’s speed record for the little creature is a sizzling 1/5 M.P.H.

• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

• In Winnipeg, a Catholic Hospital erected a "care tree" and sponsored a Christmas fund-raising campaign that did not use the word "Christmas".

• Wolves may howl messages to each other from a mile or two apart.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 28-11-11

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 28-11-11

• If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

• Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair

• The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

• The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189.

 

Trivia & Amazing Facts 26-10-11

 
Trivia & Amazing Facts 22-10-11
 

• The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.

• What's billed as the world's largest weather vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. It's 48 feet tall with a 26-foot wind arrow and adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner.

• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

• HOW THICK IS THE CRUST OF THE EARTH? Sometimes likened to the shell that covers an egg, the layer of rock that covers the surface of the earth is, on average, 22 miles thick.

• WHO SHOPLIFTS MORE OFTEN - MEN OR WOMEN? For this crime, women outnumber men by four or five to one.

 

Trivia & Amazing Facts 22-10-11

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 22-10-11

• Alexander I of the Hellenes, the King of Greece from 1917, died after being bitten by his pet monkey. While he was walking his dog in the garden, his pooch and his monkey started to fight. In an attempt to separate them, Alexander was bitten on the ankle by the monkey. Five days later, the wound turned septic and he came down with a fever. He later died from the resulting Cellulitis.

• There are 3 times more automobiles in Los Angeles than people

• One grape vine produce can produce about 20 to 30 glasses of wine.

• A shrimp's heart is in their head.

• Cat's urine glows under a black light. 

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 09-10-11

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 Trivia & Amazing Facts 09-10-11

• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

• HOW MUCH DOES A 1-CARAT DIAMOND WEIGH? It weighs 200 milligrams, or 3.086 grains troy. The measurement originally represented the weight of a seed of the carob tree.

• WHERE WAS THE FIRST ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME PLAYED? On July 6, 1933, in Comiskey Park, Chicago, home of the White Sox. The American League won, 4-2.

• Cure your toothache without opening your mouth! Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-10-11

Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-10-11

• Flamingoes can only eat with their heads upside down, and if they don't have a diet of mostly shrimps they turn white.

• HAVE DIAMONDS BEEN A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND? No. Only men wore diamonds until the mid-1400s. As the story goes, a French king's "lady" didn't like that, and fashion was forever changed. Which would explain why you have to have the wealth of a king to be to buy a diamond.

• Grasshoppers have white blood.

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 14-09-11

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 14-09-11

• Francis Bacon, one of the most influential minds of the late 16th century as a statesman, philosopher, writer and scientist, died by stuffing snow into a chicken. He was struck by the notion that possibly snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. He bought a chicken from a local village, killed it, and then tried to stuff the chicken full to snow to freeze it. The chicken didn't freeze...but Bacon did.
• WHY ARE FLAMINGOS PINK IN COLOR? Flamingos are only pink in areas where there is a certain small mollusk in their diet. Get rid of the mollusk and flamingos are white.
• The average Human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
• French Astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.
• Ever wonder how many grains of salt there are to the pound? Well, just in case you have, there are 35 million. Count ‘em.

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