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Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-01-12

2012-01-05T17:37:00.001-08:00

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

2011-11-28T12:22:00.001-08:00

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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

2011-10-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-22T14:15:00.000-07:00

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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

2011-10-09T10:47:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-05T10:45:00.000-07:00

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

2011-09-14T19:12:00.000-07:00

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.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 31-08-11

2011-08-31T04:41:00.000-07:00

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 31-08-11

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

A major Guinness beer debate has existed over the years: Do the bubbles really float down. A group of scientists have found the answer: Yes they do. After close examination, it was revealed that, as a pint settles, bubbles touching the walls of the glass experience drag and that prevents them from floating up. The bubbles in the middle, however, are free to rise.

Chocolate is definitely not a diet food, as you may well know. It contains 2,214 calories per pound.

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.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 15-08-11

2011-08-15T01:14:00.000-07:00

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.

Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 28-07-11

2011-07-28T18:20:00.000-07:00

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess.

WHERE IS YOUR HEART LOCATED? The heart is not located on the left side of the chest. It's about in the center with it's strongest portion on the left side, thus, it can be heard slightly better from the left.

French King and Crusader Henry I died from accidental defenestration. When Henry was awaiting word from the Pisan army that their ships and soldiers were ready to join him in relieving Jaffa from Al-Adil's Saracen army, he eagerly turned to greet the delegation when they arrived. When he did, he stepped backwards and lost his balance. As he fell over, his little dwarf, Scarlet, pulled at his robes. However, instead of saving the king, the dwarf fell, too, and both men died instantly.

Tomatoes were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them.

The Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 15-07-11

2011-07-15T10:17:00.000-07:00

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

WHEN WAS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT LAST SEEN? The wooden chest that contained God's laws as presented to Moses was taken on its last trip to Jerusalem by King David. Eventually King Solomon put it in the Temple. It disappeared when the Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C.

In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

The entire life of a House Fly is spent within a few hundred feet of the area where it was born.

The Toronto Maple Leafs used to be called the Toronto Arenas, then the St. Patricks and finally the Maple Leafs.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 22-06-11

2011-06-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

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.

About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 11-06-11

2011-06-11T20:24:00.000-07:00

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.

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.

Trivia & Amazing Facts 15-04-11

2011-04-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

In 1985, a pregnant women was accused for shoplifting a basketball.

ACCORDING TO CLASSICAL GREEK MYTHOLOGY, WHO WAS THE FIRST MORTAL WOMAN? Pandora.

French national hero Napoleon Bonaparte, successful for conquering most of Europe, was killed by his own wallpaper.Napoleon was imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. Scheele's Green was a coloring pigment used in fabrics and wallpaper at the time. If wallpaper that contained Scheele's Green became damp and moldy, the pigment would undergo a chemical change, and would give off Arsenic gas. The wallpaper in Napoleon's bedroom contained Scheele's Green and he was poisoned.

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.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 19-03-11

2011-03-19T17:18:00.000-07:00

Istanbul, Turkey is actually in two continents - Asia and Europe.

Tuna fish swim at an average speed of 9 miles per hour. They also never stop moving.

WHEN WAS THE FIRST INDIANAPOLIS 500? The 500-mile race was first held on May 30, 1911, when Ray Harroun won in 6 hours, 42 minutes, 8 seconds. His average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.

Abraham Lincoln died in a bed slept in by his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

While Spanish is the official language in Ecuador, there are numerous indigenous tongues. Quichua, the language of the Incas, is the most widely spoken indigenous language. English is widely spoken among professionals, the elite, and tourism providers in Ecuador.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 16-03-11

2011-03-16T17:17:00.000-07:00

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

HOW IS THE DATE FOR EASTER SUNDAY DETERMINED EACH YEAR? Easter Sunday always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21, the vernal equinox. The holiday can occur any time between March 22 and April 25.

Attila the Hun, one of the most notorious villains in history, died from a nosebleed on his wedding night. He gorged himself on food and drink at the banquet for his wedding celebration to a young girl named Ildico. He suffered a nosebleed sometime during the night, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the following morning.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!

Frogs must close their eyes to swallow.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 27-02-11

2011-02-27T04:49:00.000-08:00

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.

The US state of Alaska's coastline is longer than that of all the US coastal states combined.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 25-02-11

2011-02-25T04:47:00.000-08:00

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

IN GREEK TRAGEDIES, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAMARTIA AND HUBRIS? Hamartia is the fatal flaw that brings a good character to ruin. Hubris is pride, the classic example of hamartia.

WHO WAS THE FIRST BLACK MAYOR? Carl B. Stokes (b. 1927), great-grandson of a slave, who was mayor of Cleveland from 1967 to 1971.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 05-02-11

2011-02-05T12:59:00.000-08:00

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

HOW MANY TIMES BRIGHTER IS A FULL MOON THAN A HALF MOON? Ten times brighter.

WHEN WERE THE PLANETS DISCOVERED? Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn were known from ancient times. Uranus was discovered in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts 02-02-11

2011-02-02T13:06:00.000-08:00

WHERE WAS ADOLF HITLER'S SISTER-IN-LAW WORKING DURING WORLD WAR II? For British War Relief in New York City. Bridget Hitler was the Irish-born wife of Hitler's older half-brother, Alois.

HOW DID THE GATORADE FRUIT DRINK GET ITS NAME? From the University of Florida football team - the Gators - after the team tested it.

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

"Celluwipes" was the original name of Kleenex during the initial marketing effort in 1924.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 29-01-11

2011-01-29T14:07:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 15-01-11

2011-01-15T07:28:00.000-08:00

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.

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 16-11-10

2010-11-16T16:36:00.000-08:00

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 19-09-10

2010-09-19T11:28:00.000-07:00

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.

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 26-08-10

2010-08-26T05:18:00.000-07:00

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.