Trivia Tuesday File
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CANADIAN TRIVIA
FROM… “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Canada!”
1). Twenty year-old Joan O’Malley sewed the first Canadian flag in 1964.
2). The maple leaf on Canada’s flag has 11 “points” - actual maple leaves have 32.
3). The first patent filed in Canada was in 1824 for a washing machine.
4). The first Canadian city with more than one million citizens is Montréal.
5). Cheech and Chong formed their comedy act in Vancouver.
6). Number of legal border-crossing points between the US and Canada is 98.
7). McGill University developed the world's first Internet service at search engine “Archie” in 1990.
8). The world’s oldest chain-store is the Bay established in 1670.
9). England's first overseas colony was Newfoundland.
10). When it freezes, Ottawa's Rideau Canal becomes the world's largest skating rink.
11). Until the 1960’s 95% of the milk consumed in Canada was delivered door-to-door.
12). The only Canadian Province with an official fruit is Nova Scotia with the blueberry.
13). Former Prime Minister Lester Pearson once played semiprofessional baseball.
14). Largest independent film producer in North America is Vancouver's Lion’s Gate films.
15). Canada is the world's leading producer of natural uranium.
16). Percentage of Canadians who think Elvis is still alive is 3%.
17). Montréal‘s sister city is Hiroshima, Japan.
18). The Toronto Maple Leafs were originally called the Toronto Saint Patrick's.
19). The Miss Canada pageant was canceled in 1992 after it was teamed degrading to women.
20). Reindeer can't live at the North Pole - it's too cold.
21). More people live in the state of California than in all of Canada.
22). The year in which women were declared “persons” under Canadian law was 1929.
23). The most valuable vegetable crop in Canada is the potato.
24). Canada officially became bilingual in 1969.
25). In 1940 Sunbury Ontario became the first Canadian city to install parking meters.
26). American immigrants to Canada were not recognized as a distinct ethnic group until 1991.
27). The character of James Bond is based on William Stephenson, a real-life spy from Winnipeg.
28). The word Hockey is likely derived from hoquet Old French for “shepherd’s crook”.
29). The most photographed hotel in the world is Québec City's Château Frontenac.
30). The word “Canuck” originated in the mid-1800s a derisive term for French Canadians.
31). Norman Breakey of Toronto invented the paint roller in 1940.
32). The world's oldest rocks (4.28 billion years old) were found on the shores of Hudson Bay.
33). Number of Canadians currently happy with their hair is 80%.
34). Canada is home to ten species of maple tree.
35). First recorded soccer game in Canada was in 1586 on Baffin Island.
36). Joni Mitchell's real name and Roberta Joan Anderson.
37). Canada's largest native land animal is the bison.
38). Canadian money is also called the loonie.
39). Canadian piggy banks are sometimes called Loonie Bins.
40). Paul McCarthy wears an Ontario Provincial Police badge on the cover of St. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
41). Kabloona is an Intuit word for “white man.”
42). The Canadian side of Niagara Falls has a flow of 155 million liters of water per minute. The US side has 14 million.
43). University of Toronto professor Daniel Wilson coined the term “prehistoric” in 1851.
44). Arctic hares have black eyelashes to protect their eyes from the sun, like sunglasses.
45). English first outnumbered French in Canada in 1850.
46). In 1914 Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run at Toronto's Island Stadium.
47). Color TV signals were first transmitted in Canada in 1966.
48). There are musical notes on every street sign in Mozart, Saskatchewan.
49). The only Canadian player in the baseball Hall of Fame is Ferguson Jenkins of the Chicago Cubs.
50). Canada's oldest English-speaking university, University of New Brunswick was established in 1785.
51). The only princess born in Canada was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands in1943.
52). Pierre Trudeau, is the only Prime Minister who got married while in office.
53). The only Canadian on the cover of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album is child actor Bobby Green.
54). Alfred Hitchcock's film The 39 Steps was based on a novel by governor-general John Buchan.
55). The Sky Dome’s are retractable roof weighs 11,000 tons.
56). In 1910 it cost two cents to mail a letter in Canada.
57). Only 10% of Canadians have ever been to one of the Northern Territories.
58). Homer Simpson has been declared an honorary citizen of Winnipeg.
59). Canada's entire population is less than Tokyo's.
60). Mohamed Ali called Toronto boxer George Chuvalo “the toughest men I ever fought.”
61). On March 30th 1848, Niagara Falls ran dry - the only time it ever did.
62). Canada was the third nation after the US and USSR to launch a satellite into space.
63). Skedaddlers were American draft dodgers in Canada during the US Civil War.
64). A reporter with the Ottawa Journal coined the term “Beatlemania.”
65). There are about two million lakes in Canada.
66). Brewing magnate John Carling never drank beer - it disagreed with his system.
67). In Nova Scotia, it's illegal to water your lawn while it's raining.
68). The first McDonald's outside of the US opened in 1967 in Richmond, British Columbia.
69). In the 1700’s British soldiers stationed in Canada there were entitled to 6 pints of beer a day.
70). Cabbies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are required to wear socks.
71). The coldest day in Canada on average is February 2.
72). Ontario's first license plates were made of leather.
73). Canadian pilot A. Roy Brown is credited with shooting down World War I German ace “The Red Baron.”
74). Charles Dickens’ son Francis, was a Mountie in the 1880s.
75). The oldest street in North America is Water Street in St. John's, Newfoundland.
76). In 1965 Toronto psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques coined the term “mid-life crisis.”
77). There are no rats in Alberta.
78). One quarter of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of Toronto.
79). During filming for Canada’s first talkie The Viking in 1931 27 people died when a ship exploded.
80). Canadian Vaudevillian Thomas P. Kelly created the “pie in the face” comedy routine.
81). The first province to grant women the right to vote was Manitoba in 1916.
82). Canada's first gas station was in Vancouver in 1907.
83). When John Molson began brewing in 1786, a bottle of his beer cost five cents.
84). In British Columbia, it's illegal to kill a Sasquatch.
85). The National Film Board of Canada is the world's largest government film agency.
86). Neil Young's father Scott is in the Hockey Hall of Fame - as a writer.
87). The largest paper currency denomination in Canada is the $1000 bill.
89). The second largest meteorite crater in the world is in Sudbury, Ontario.
90). The maple leaf was first used as an emblem in Canada in 1834.
91). Approximately 100 languages are spoken in Canada.
92). The word “igloo” comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.”
93). The term cyberspace was coined by Vancouver novelist William Gibson in 1982.
94). First recorded UFO sighting of North America was in New Minas, Nova Scotia in 1786.
95) St. Paul Alberta, is home to the world’s first UFO landing pad.
96). Prairie farmers harvest enough wheat each year to make 46 billion loaves of bread.
97). The province with the fewest pairs of jeans per capita is Quebec.
98). Coldest temperature ever reached in Canada is -63C in Snag, Yukon in 1947.
99). Mike Myers made his acting debut at 12 on the CBC sitcom, The King of Kensington.
100). The last time the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used sled dogs was in 1969
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the
United
States than it cost
Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
in the English language.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems
dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that
is, they favor either their right or left paws.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are
rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in
a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they
actually sleep in other places.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other
color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad
and sting itself to death.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human
manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2
larger ones in front.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted
in a bar in
Tijuana,
Mexico, in the 1920's.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed
Japan,
Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build
cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is
5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers
(Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a
time.
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends
with the letters "und."
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of
Guinness beer.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel =
motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the
narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the
stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana
mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister,
Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a
religious retreat in
India.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man
on the moon in 1969.)
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the
moon before I hit a home run." On
July 20, 1969,
a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his
first, and only, home run.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Horses cannot vomit.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver"
Beaumont
was an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first
U.S.
football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Professional Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine
parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing
something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes
from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the
Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like
'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe
DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and
therefore forestall curses.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more
secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette,
the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which
means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of
three streets in
Rome, they
would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might
be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."
Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence
movement.
The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are
classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets
have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my
toothbrush in the living room now.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company
died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were
three gifts.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it
will digest itself.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many
of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is
a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test:
Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there
is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a
GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your
nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the
US any
given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
In
Massachusetts
- It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace
Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested? A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A.
Father's Day
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in
your medicine cabinet.
In
Scotland,
a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....
and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
At -40° (either Centigrade or Fahrenheit; both are equal there), a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, who doesn’t exist, received 800,000 fan letters.
There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
It would take you 3,000 years to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one per second.
Less than 3% of Nestle’s sales are for chocolate.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
Over their lifetime, the average person will spend 2 weeks waiting for traffic lights to change.
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using right-handed products.
Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history without a full moon.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than die in plane crashes.
The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel fuel.
At least 9 million people in the world share your birthday.
At any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk.
The tip of your wristwatch’s hour hand travels 0.00000275 miles per hour.
One thing that humans do more than anything is sleep. Most Americans sleep 6-8 hours a day, or 24 years of their life.
A man’s beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.
A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.
Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair.
It takes a half-gallon of water to cook macaroni and a gallon to clean the pot.
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours shaving.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires made of wood and dung.
Less than 1% of China’s 500 major cities have clean air. Respiratory disease is China’s leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population.
It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of time differences, production occurred around the clock for more than three years.
From 1840 to 1980, every president elected in a year ending in “0” has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd-numbered year and on an even-numbered day. Will W break this?
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime, usually at night.
About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet.
No president of the United States was an only child.
The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
You use more calories eating celery than you get from the celery.
On average, each McDonalds BigMac bun has 178 sesame seeds.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Odds of being killed by a dog: 1 in 700,000.
Odds of dying while in the bath tub: 1 in 1 million.
Odds of being killed by space debris: 1 in 5 billion.
Odds of being killed by poisoning: 1 in 86,000.
Odds of being killed by freezing: 1 in 3 million.
Odds of being killed by lightening: 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed in a car crash: 1 in 5,000.
Odds of being killed in a tornado: 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed: 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed in a plane crash: 1 in 25 million.
If you played every Beatles’ single and album issued between 1962 and 1970, it would only take 10 hours and 33 minutes.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
13 people are killed each year by vending machines.
There is a ¼-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.
The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.
Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.
The Earth’s revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.
Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%. (But around Saturn’s rings?)
Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
1/3 of all cancers are sun related.
The average person flexes his finger joints 24 million times in his lifetime.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. (A piece of spam every 0.00001 seconds?)
If every human on earth owned an equal portion of dry land, including uninhabitable areas, everyone would own about 100 square feet.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
In a century’s time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.
Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of Americans households.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
More Monopoly money than real money is printed every year.
¼ of the bones in your body is in your feet.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.
If the population of China walked past you single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
The average person spends about 2 years of his life on the telephone.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
The first millennium, from year 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. The previous millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The difference is in the calendar systems used during the different periods.
Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a
Wednesday the 25th.
John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a
claw hammer.
One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That
was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the
strips of rubber around car windows.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,
the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person
died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on
the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the
bones fuse together as a child grows).
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is
equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not
eat any type of plant material.
There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound
produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a
result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire
lifetime.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.
North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed
record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four
times around the world.
Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there
are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host
of “Lorne Greene’s Animal Kingdom”.
The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in
case their pants split).
The Spanish word esposa means “wife.” The plural, esposas, means “wives,” but
also “handcuffs.”
If all Americans used one third less ice in their drinks the United States would
become a net exporter instead of an importer of energy.
If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly
from New York to Los Angeles.
San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that move.
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully
cured for another 500 years.
Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
All of David Letterman’s suits are custom made - there are no creases in his
suit trousers.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home
run.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House,
suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after
singing the line “You can only live so long.”
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would
be female, 49% male; 50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people, one
person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish
stores.
Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver’s licenses to
six different people named Jesus Christ.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory
workers in Malaysia combined.
People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month
because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the
same symbol.
Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 “puppy” teeth,
then 42 adult teeth.
In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening
day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed.
A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its
mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
There once was a town named “6″ in West Virginia.
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ELVIS PRESLEY Similarities between Jesus and Elvis Presley...
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FOODS
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1. Hold your breath as long as you can, then exhale very gradually. 2. Deep slow breathing. 3. Nonstop, slow sipping of a glass of warm water. 4. Taking a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
0. Smith 1. Johnson 2. Williams 3. Brown 4. Jones 5. Miller 6. Davis 7. Wilson 8. Anderson 9. Taylor
0. Lose weight 1. Stop smoking 2. Stick to a budget 3. Save more money 4. Find a better job 5. Become more organized 6. Exercise more 7. Be more patient at work/with others 8. Eat better 9. Become a better person
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SPORTS
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· The number one reason people choose to buy a wireless phone is for safety (nearly 50% of those who own wireless phones purchased it for safety). · The first prototype of the sound-proof phone booth was built in 1877. Mr. Watson, Alexander Graham Bell's trusty assistant, used a bunch of bed blankets around a box. He created the booth to prevent his landlady from listening in on his conversations. Some callers didn't like using the early phone booths because the doors would get stuck, forcing users to fight their way out. · In the early 1880's some well-to-do telephone owners started the unusual trend of paying to have a theatre employee hold a telephone receiver backstage, transmitting live plays and operas into their living rooms. · The commercial wireless phone was first introduced in Chicago in 1982 by Ameritech. The first mobile car phones were located in the car's trunk, taking up nearly half of the space. · Phone service was established at the White House one year after its invention. President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first to have phone service (1877-81). · Fifteen years after its invention in 1876, there were five million phones in America. · Fifteen years after its invention, more than 33 million wireless phones were in the U.S. · Being rude to a telephone operator in Prussia was once a crime. In 1908, a respected citizen was reprimanded by the government after becoming exasperated with an operator and saying "My dear girl!" · When Alexander Graham Bell died on August 4, 1922, millions of phones went dead. In Bell's honor, all phones served by the Bell System in the USA and Canada went silent for one minute. · The first transatlantic wedding took place on December 2, 1933. The groom was in Michigan. The bride, in Sweden. The ceremony took seven minutes and cost $47.50. · In the late 30's, a man named Abe Pickens of Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to promote world peace by placing personal calls to various country leaders. He managed to contact Mussolini, Hirohito, Franco and Hitler (Hitler, who didn't understand English, transferred him to an aide). He spent $10,000 to "give peace a chance." · In the Catholic church, St. Gabriel, an archangel, is the patron saint of telecommunications. · One of the first telephone answering machines was developed in Switzerland during the 1950's. It took three days to install. · The famous emergency hotline, whereby the President could have immediate contact with the Kremlin wasn't established until 1984. Prior to 1984, the only direct contact to the Kremlin was a cumbersome teleprinter link, supplying text messages that then had to be translated, responses drafted and sent back. · During President Lyndon Johnson's term, many people misdialed the White House number and instead reached the home of a New York housewife. Rose Brown had a near identical phone number. He wrote and thanked her for her diplomacy in receiving his highly sensitive calls and promised to return the favor when her friends and family accidentally dialed the White House. · Two days before Alexander Graham Bell married Mabel Hubbard in 1877, he gave her 99 percent of his company shares as a wedding gift. He kept a mere ten for himself.
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