The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than
the Pacific Ocean.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than
its feathers.
In medieval England beer was often
served with breakfast.
The right lung takes in more air than
the left.
Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
Top 10 Most Widely Spoken Languages
1) Mandarin Chinese 2)
English 3) Hindustani 4) Australian 5) Spanish
6) Russian 7) Arabic
8) Bengali 9) Portuguese 10) Japanese
Source: Trivia Daily
Right field was the only baseball position
not identified in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" comedy routine.
The remaining players were named as follows: first base - Who, second base
- What, third base - I Don't Know, shortstop - I Don't Care, catcher -
Today, pitcher - Tomorrow, left field - Why, & center field - Because.
Of the seven wonders of the world noted
in the Antipater of Sidon in the second century B.C. only the Pyramids
of Egypt (the oldest of the seven) remain. The other six are: the
hanging gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple
of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of
Rhodes, the Pharos (Lighthouse) at Alexandria.
Source: The New York Public Library's
The Book of Answers
They live an average of 77 years and
have the longest lifespan in the United States - nuns.
There are 2,598,960 possible hands
in a five-card poker game.
Alfred Nobel [of Nobel prize fame]
invented dynamite. Lesser known is that he was also the pioneer of plywood.
Your hearing is not as sharp on a full
stomach.
Cows can be identified by noseprints.
At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath
will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
In ancient China, doctors received
their fees only if their patients were kept healthy. If the patient's
health failed, the doctor sometimes paid the patient.
Source: The Bathroom Trivia Book
Research indicates that mosquitoes
are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
The average person is about a quarter
of an inch taller at night.
Source: Daily Miscellany
There are more stars in the universe,
than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world? There is proof
that there are over 100 billion billion as of 1982.
If there were ever an ocean big enough,
Saturn would be the only planet that could float? This is because its density
is lighter than that of water (it is mostly gas).
There are over 500,000 craters on the
moon that can be seen from the planet Earth? It would take over 400
hours to count them all, not including the ones on the far side of the
moon.
Source: Trivia Daily
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's
Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance)
but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV
set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Source: H.A.N.D.
Facts and trivia assembled from various
sources by Rusty
Ivey. Special thanks to PlanetAll
for their trivia sources.
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