Trivia & Amazing Facts
- 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
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- 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
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Delivery times for Dominoes pizza in Hong Kong is primarily influenced
by elevator traffic. Due to a high level of congestion, most of a pizza
delivery man's time is spent waiting for and riding elevators
- All polar bears are left-handed
- WHAT WAS THE FIRST PUBLICLY TELEVISED SPORTING EVENT? It was a Japanese baseball game, broadcast on September 27, 1931. The Ushigome and Awazi Schuciku Higher Elementary Schools battled it out on the Tozuka Baseball Ground, watched by viewers on 8-by-5-inch screens
- Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins
- A swimming pool has banned an elderly customer because they said his body odour was putting off other swimmers. The 66-year-old was a three-times-a-week visitor at the De Zeehond baths in the Dutch town of Rozenburg, but always arrived wearing the same shirt and trousers. Manager Peter van Vierssem said: "The smell was unbearable. We argued with him about it for a whole year. We asked him to wash his clothes and even sent him letters, but nothing helped."The pensioner, who held an annual ticket to the baths, has been banned from the pool for at least a year
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- The "cheek stroke" gesture in Greece, Italy, and Spain means "attractive." In Croatia and Bosnia, it means "success."
- Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
- Prevent near-sightedness! Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles-like the eyes-into relaxing as well
- Human skin has about 100,000 bacteria per square centimeter. 10% of human dry weight is due to bacteria
- The brain of Neanderthal man was larger than that of modern man
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Percentage of Americans that want to change their bodies in some way: 75%. Percentage of Americans that would want to change their intelligence: 13%.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public
- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- 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
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works
- There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the United States
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
- Turtles can breathe through their butts
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
- After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe
- In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch'
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
- Approximately 74% of Americans celebrate Valentine's Day
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
- "Race car" is a palindrome.
- The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia
- Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
- Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
Trivia & Amazing Facts
- Worldwide - more capital cities begin with "B" than any other letter
- "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting"
- The first woman governor – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming - was elected in 1924, upon the death of the previous governor, her husband
- Until 1967, LSD was legal in California
- There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong'
