Trivia and Amazing Facts
- There are more chickens than people in the world
- Nearly 60 percent of Americans describe their physical appearance as average. But 31 percent say they are above-average and five percent claim to be handsome or beautiful. Whites are only half as likely as blacks to say they are good-looking...evidence that black IS beautiful!
- The difference between a "millennium" and a "chiliad"? None. Both words mean "a period of one thousand years" - the former from Latin, the latter from Greek
- The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871
- To divide something into squares is to "graticulate"
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- When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka
- Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year
- The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters "mt."
- The first children's book that was published in the U.S. was called "Spiritual Mild for Boston Babes in wither England Drawn from the Breast of Both Testaments for Their Soul's Nourishment."
- In 1822, in his book Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas DeQuincy invented the word "tranquilizer" to describe the effect of opium
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- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand
- The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers
- Make your heart stand still! Trying to quell first-date jitters? Blow on your thumb. The vagus nerve, which governs heart rate, can be controlled through breathing, says Ben Abo, an emergency medical-services specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. It'll get your heart rate back to normal
- Oak Tree. In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves
- Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet
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- The most common name in the world is Mohammed
- Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal
- A typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year
- One of the greatest orators of all time, - Demosthenes (384? - 322 B.C.) was once a stutterer who stubbornly trained himself to stop, reportedly by putting pebbles in his mouth and practicing speaking aloud
- Hail destroys hundreds of millions dollars' worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes
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- The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Shakespeare was the first to use certain words that are now common, including "hurry," "bump," "eyeball," and "anchovy."
- The opposite of a "vacuum" is a "plenum."
- The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
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- Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
- The last dictionary that Noah Webster wrote contained 70,000 words and their meanings. He wrote it with no help and by hand. After his death his family sold the right to publish to G&C Merriam and Co.
- Hoi polloi is a Greek phrase meaning “the many.” Hoi polloi are the masses.
- A "zeedonk" is the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
- One hundred thousand cubic feet of water pours over the Niagara Falls every second
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- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly
- Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
- If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil.
- A three-letter, one-syllable word that becomes a three-syllable word by adding one letter to the end of it: The word "are" has three letters and one syllable - "area" has three syllables.
- "Mrs." is the abbreviation of Mistress, which originally was a title and form of address for a married woman. It was always capitalized
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- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
- St. Patrick was a fifth-century English (or perhaps Scottish) missionary to Ireland. The feast day of St. Patrick has been observed in Ireland on March 17 for hundreds of years. The date falls during the fasting season of Lent, but on St. Patrick's Day the prohibitions against eating meat were lifted, and the Irish would celebrate their patron saint with dancing, drinking, and feasting on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
- The phrase "a red letter day" dates back to 1704, when holy days were marked in red letters in church calendars
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- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casin0s.
- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
- The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
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- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer
- Snakes are immune to their own poison
- Cats roll on their backs to show affection. They expose their bellies like this only when they feel totally secure
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
- Carte blanche, which means unconditional authority or power, was coined during the mid 1600s and literally means in French "blank document"
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- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned
- The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shell.
- The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- Betty Boop's last cartoons were made in 1939.
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- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose
- There are about 100 breeds of cats.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
- The Chicago River is dyed green every year on St. Patrick's Day. This tradition began in 1962, when Chicago pollution- control workers used green dye to trace illegal sewage discharges in the river. The workers thought it might be a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, so they released 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the river – enough to keep it green for a week.
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- "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt"
- The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms)
- Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats
- From 1930 to 1939 Betty Boop made over 120 cartoons
- More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States
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- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
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- Earth is the only planet not named after a god
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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- Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine
- The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value
- English has replaced Russian as the most popular foreign language in schools in China
- Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 synonyms for "drunk," including cherry-merry, nimptopsical, and soaked
- Portmanteau words are descriptive word combinations, such as brunch (from breakfast and lunch), motel (from motor and hotel), and smog (from smoke and fog)
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- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
- Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually
- The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- Australian slang for "lavatory" is "Dunny
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- The word "buxom" at one time meant "obedient"
- American newlyweds are typicaly four years older than they were in 1960
- Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
- The number of Begonia hybrids is estimated between 1,000 and 2,000. Within this enormous family there are plants which are tiny enough to grow in an egg shell and others which can cover a greenhouse wall
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Trivia and Amazing Facts
- Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
- There is a city called Rome on every continent
- The word "taxi" is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese
- An obsolete term for a foolish, talkative person is "blatherskite"
- In "British English," a booger is called a "bogey" or "bogie"
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- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- 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
