Friday Morning Trivia . . .
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
-Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
-Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
-Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed
people do.
-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language.
-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
-The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember
the word you want.
-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction
-The word race car and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
-A snail can sleep for 3 years. (they call it Yasmin)
-China has more English speakers than the United States.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million
people in the world.
-The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
refers to a distinct part of DNA.
-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
-Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month.
-The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
-There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
-In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age
-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
-The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by
a poisonous spider
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Starfish haven't got brains.
--
John H. Hoffmann
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