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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- 43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV
- The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
- Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
- The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length
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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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- 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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- Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
- Did you know that most woman dream in color? Most men dream in black and white
- The Buddhist New Year is celebrated in Tibet with a dish called guthok, which is made of nine special ingredients, including a piece of charcoal. The person who gets the charcoal is said to have an evil heart
- African elephants are the largest mammals living on solid ground. They reach lengths up to 7.5 m and weights up to 7500 kg.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
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- WHO SHOPLIFTS MORE OFTEN - MEN OR WOMEN? For this crime, women outnumber men by four or five to one.
- 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
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- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- 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.
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- If a male cat is both orange and black it is (besides being extremely
rare) sterile. To have both the orange and the black coat colors, the
male cat must have all or part of both female X chromosomes. This
unusual sex chromosome combination will render the male cat sterile
- In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle's were sold at a price of $1800 each in the United States
- WHAT IS THE NATIONAL BIRD OF INDIA? The peacock
- Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl
- The entire life of a House Fly is spent within a few hundred feet of the area where it was born
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- Six British men have filed lawsuits against Sky TV for fooling them into
kissing a man that appeared to be a woman. The contestants hoped to win
$17,000 and a week on a yacht with the sultry brunette who starred in
the reality show, "There's Something About Miriam." The young men say
they were told to impress "her" by performing macho and romantic acts,
such as intimate massages, caressing and cuddling, holding hands and
kissing. But they were horrified to learn after three weeks of filming
that Miriam is a man, said to be a planning a sex change. All six
contestants walked out and banded together to sue producers and try to
stop the show being aired. Their lawsuit claims defamation, conspiracy
to commit sexual assault, breach of contract and personal injury by way
of psychological and emotional damage.
- Packaging from consumer goods comprises about one-third of the nation's trash. Approximately 50 percent of the nation's paper, eight percent of its steel, 75 percent of its glass, 40 percent of its aluminum, and 30 percent of its plastic are used solely for packaging
- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
- In 1848, the first American pasta factory opened in Brooklyn, New York. The name of the man that opened it was Antoine Zerega
- Orange Juice and Antacids Do Not Mix: - If you take an antacid that contains aluminum, avoid drinking any kind of orange juice. A 4-ounce glass of orange juice can inscrease the absorption of aluminum found in antacids tenfold. Aluminum can collect in the tissues and high levels may affect your health. Allow at least 3 hours after taking an antacid before drinking citrus juice
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- WHAT IS THE MOST WIDELY CULTIVATED PLANT? Wheat, the food base of
Western civilization, is by far the most widely grown plant. It has been
cultivated for more than 7,000 years in every continent except
Antarctica
- APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY POUNDS OF DUNG DOES THE AVERAGE ELEPHANT PRODUCE DAILY? 50 pounds
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
- "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo
- Almost half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet
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- Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
- There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow
- WHAT EUROPEAN COUNTRY USES THE INITIALS "CH" ON ITS AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES AND IN ITS POSTAL CODES? Switzerland
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- Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the "ten most recognizable odors"
- A giraffe's heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
- Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River
- Boogers may not be flicked into the wind
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Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
- 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.
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog
- The oldest letter of the alphabet is the letter "O"
- When written in Roman numerals, the year 1666 is the only date in history that is written from the highest to the lowest value, MDCLXVI (1000 + 500 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 5 + 1).
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- Country comedienne Minnie Pearl always wore a hat with a price tag hanging from it when she performed. The amount ascribed on the price tag was $1.98
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day
- WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE EXPRESSION "UPPER CRUST"? Etiquette in days of yore required that the choice top crust of a loaf of bread be presented to the king or ranking noble at the table
- Over 200,000 telephone calls are made daily at the Pentagon
- WHAT WAS THE SONG? The first released song from the Jackson 5 was "I Want You Back"
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
- Stanch blood with a single finger! Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed-if you don't mind choking on your own O positive. A more civil approach: Put some cotton on your upper gums-just behind that small dent below your nose-and press against it, hard. "Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose," says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in Durban, South Africa. "Pressing here helps stop them"
- If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have $1.19. You would also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
- WHAT DID LONDON BLACKSMITH CHARLES MONCKE INVENT? The monkey wrench, which was originally called Moncke's wrench
- HOW DID BLOOMERS - LADIES PANTALOONS - GET THEIR NAME? From suffragette Amelia Bloomer
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- Closest Star. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth (outside our solar system), but it is too small to be seen without a telescope
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
- In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows
- 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell.
- There are 11 points on the Canadian flag
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
- A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years
- What is called a "French kiss" in England and America is known as an "English kiss" in France
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
