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Trivia - Bernice Moore - 06-04-2011
[B]If right handed, you tend to [/B][B]
[B][B]chew your food on the right side of your mouth. Left handed, [/B]
[B]you tend to chew on the left side.[/B]
[B]To make half a kilo of [/B]
[B]honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million [/B]
[B]flowers.[/B]
[B]Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed [/B]
[B]by 'Bayer'.[/B]
[B]Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 [/B]
[B]as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Tourists [/B]
[B]visiting Iceland should know tipping is considered an [/B]
[B]insult![/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Albert Einstein was offered the presidency [/B]
[B]of Israel in 1952 but declined.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Astronauts can't [/B]
[B]belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their [/B]
[B]stomachs.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Ancient Roman, Chinese and German [/B]
[B]societies often used urine as mouthwash.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The average [/B]
[B]person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a [/B]
[B]night.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the [/B]
[B]Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it [/B]
[B]is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than seven minutes [/B]
[B]58 seconds.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The night of January 20 is "Saint [/B]
[B]Agnes's Eve" which is regarded a time when a young woman dreams of [/B]
[B]her future husband.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]There are over 25 million [/B]
[B]bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne [/B]
[B].[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Google is actually the common name for a number [/B]
[B]with a million zeros.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]It takes glass one million [/B]
[B]years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be [/B]
[B]recycled an infinite number of times![/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The heat of [/B]
[B]peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Gold is the [/B]
[B]only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground [/B]
[B]for thousands of years.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Your tongue is the only [/B]
[B]muscle attached at only one end.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]If you stop getting [/B]
[B]thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human [/B]
[B]body is dehydrated its thirst mechanism shuts off.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit or die of [/B]
[B]tobacco-related disease.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]When it originally appeared [/B]
[B]in 1886, Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and [/B]
[B]Intellectual Beverage.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Zero is the only number that [/B]
[B]cannot be represented by Roman numerals.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Kites were [/B]
[B]used in during the Civil War to deliver letters and [/B]
[B]newspapers.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Auld Lang Syne is sung at the [/B]
[B]stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the [/B]
[B]world to bring in the new year.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]For every real [/B]
[B]Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in [/B]
[B]its place.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Drinking water after eating reduces the [/B]
[B]acid in your mouth by 61 percent.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Peanut oil is used [/B]
[B]for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's [/B]
[B]heated above 450°F.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The Shell Oil Company originally [/B]
[B]began as a novelty shop selling seashells in London .[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The roar heard when we place a seashell next to our ear is not [/B]
[B]the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins [/B]
[B]in the ear.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Nine out of every ten living things live [/B]
[B]in the ocean.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The banana cannot reproduce itself. [/B]
[B]It can only be propagated by the hand of man.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to [/B]
[B]lower air density.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Fish and Chip selling officially [/B]
[B]remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it [/B]
[B]produced.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The University of Alaska spans four time [/B]
[B]zones.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The tooth is the only part of the human body [/B]
[B]that cannot heal itself.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]In ancient Greece , [/B]
[B]tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of [/B]
[B]marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Do you [/B]
[B]know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no [/B]
[B]evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no [/B]
[B]evil).[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Warner Communications paid $28 million [/B]
[B]for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their [/B]
[B]hair.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]A comet's tail always points away from the [/B]
[B]sun.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The 1976 swine flu vaccine caused more death [/B]
[B]and illness than the disease it was intended to [/B]
[B]prevent.[/B]
[B]Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and [/B]
[B]other painkillers, that's why it is found in some [/B]
[B]medicines.[/B]
[B]The military salute is a motion that evolved from [/B]
[B]medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to [/B]
[B]reveal their identity.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]If you get into the bottom of [/B]
[B]a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in [/B]
[B]the middle of the day.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]When a person dies, hearing [/B]
[B]is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is [/B]
[B]sight.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who [/B]
[B]haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and [/B]
[B]witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only [/B]
[B]by barking of dogs who told of her approach. [/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]In ancient times strangers shook hands to show they were [/B]
[B]unarmed.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Strawberries are the only fruit whose seeds [/B]
[B]grow on the outside.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Avocados have the highest [/B]
[B]calories of any fruit; 167 calories per hundred grams.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts [/B]
[B]involving vending machines.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The moon moves about two [/B]
[B]inches away from the Earth each year.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The Earth gets [/B]
[B]100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be [/B]
[B]higher than 15,000 meters.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Men's shirts have buttons [/B]
[B]on the right, women's shirts buttons on the left.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy .[/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges [/B]
[B]because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to [/B]
[B]knock down the bridge.[/B]
[B]The painting that won second place in a [/B]
[B]competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging [/B]
[B]upside down when judged.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]Everything weighs one [/B]
[B]percent less at the equator.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]For every extra [/B]
[B]kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel is [/B]
[B]needed for lift-off.[/B]
[B][/B]
[B]The letter J does not [/B]
[B]appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements. [/B]
[B][/B]
[B][/B]
[B]And last but not least[/B][B]: [/B][/B][/B]
[B]2011 July has 5 Fridays, 5 [/B][B]
[B][B]Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 [/B]
[B]years! This is called 'money bags'. So send this on to [/B]
[B]five and money will arrive in five days. Based on Feng Shui, [/B]
[B]the one who does not pass this on will have money troubles for the [/B]
[B]rest of the year. [/B]
[B][/B][/B][/B]