- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- All porcupines float in water.
Showing posts with label tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuesday. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
- The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 in its lifetime.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
- If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
- 2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.
- Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
- A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.
- McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys!
- Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
- Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts...
- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
- The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
- Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
- Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
- The average person laughs 13 times a day
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
- The most common birth date is October 5 and the least common is May 22 in U.S.A
Do You Feel Delightfully Smart?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day
- 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
- Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
- 68% of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
- Babies are born without knee caps.
- Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
- The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
- It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
- On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- Cold water weighs more than hot water.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven
- Apples are 25% air.
- Avocados are poisonous to birds.
- The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
Do you feel delightfully smarter?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
- From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size
- Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
- Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet
- Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow
- Did You Know, 25% of your bones are located in your feet
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Do you feel delightfully smarter?
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- There are 86,400 seconds in day
- Ants never sleep.
- A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds
- The human brain is 80% water
- The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites
- No president of the United States was an only child.
- Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales
- Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
- All polar bears are left handed
Do you feel delightfully smarter?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.
- The best-selling Barbie® doll ever was Totally Hair® Barbie®. She had flowing tresses from the top of her head down to her toes.
- Most plant pollen is highly inflammable. It will ignite and explode when placed on an extremely hot surface. In the early days of modern theater, artificial lightning was produced by throwing pollen grains of the club moss onto a hot shovel.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
- The inside of a man’s wallet is a great breeding ground for germs. It functions as an incubator. While you sit on it, the contents (germy money and other degradable stuff) is kept warm and moist.
- Warfarin is a popular anti-coagulant but also a very popular form of rat poison.
- A person uses, approximately, fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
- On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid
- Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.
- Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze
- The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
- According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction
- The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria
- 50% of all people kiss have their first kiss before they are 14.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
- Slugs have 4 noses
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot
- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass
- Baby beavers are called kittens
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray
- India has about 50 million
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
{trivia tuesday}
10 random but delightful facts....
- The majority of suicides occur on a Monday
- The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day
- Your hair and nails grow after you
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